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Post by VegHead on Nov 17, 2016 19:23:37 GMT 10
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Post by VegHead on Oct 26, 2016 18:37:28 GMT 10
Bring back the villages, before it all goes south; that's inbuilt resilence for when it goes to custard. We thought the lone wolf would always be the way to go, but after many years we are thinking otherwise, especially as we age. Just my two cents worth.
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Post by VegHead on Oct 22, 2016 20:40:02 GMT 10
Half acre for a complete cycle of trotter and feather, the rest is given over to cereal crops and sheep. Then the next cycle is where the sheep and crops were. Overall, two acres. It's always a work in progress of course.
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Post by VegHead on Oct 22, 2016 19:05:08 GMT 10
I use $30 F. Dick knives, and they serve me well although their steel grade has become poor recently.
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Post by VegHead on Oct 22, 2016 19:01:56 GMT 10
I'll second pigs for plowing!
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Post by VegHead on Oct 22, 2016 18:59:06 GMT 10
I'm interested.
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Post by VegHead on Oct 14, 2016 14:32:04 GMT 10
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Post by VegHead on Sept 19, 2016 19:11:25 GMT 10
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Post by VegHead on Sept 19, 2016 18:14:36 GMT 10
Elizabeth Shippard wrote some awesome books on what you want. Google them.
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Post by VegHead on Sept 1, 2016 21:00:42 GMT 10
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Post by VegHead on Sept 1, 2016 17:14:34 GMT 10
HEYLO bags we use all the time and also prevents burning and sticking on pan bottoms.
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Post by VegHead on Sept 1, 2016 10:20:26 GMT 10
Or you could use Heylo bags??
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Post by VegHead on Aug 30, 2016 18:25:21 GMT 10
As you aren't interested in home-preserved foods at the moment I am at a loss to give you any answers lol.
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Post by VegHead on Aug 10, 2016 17:30:25 GMT 10
Tattler lids won't fit FV jars, sorry. The rings are reusable in a pressure canner. I reuse them until they are too far gone and you'll know when that is just by looking at them. Please go through wellrounded's old posts as she clearly has answered most questions already.
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Post by VegHead on Aug 9, 2016 14:16:31 GMT 10
FV jars are just fine in a canner. Wellrounded did a post about using them as she uses nothing else but the FV jars.
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Post by VegHead on Aug 7, 2016 17:22:41 GMT 10
Vodka, salt, sugar.
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Post by VegHead on Jul 27, 2016 9:30:25 GMT 10
We are fortunate to live a lifestyle that enables us in the years of good rainfall to be able to produce up to 85 percent of our nutritional needs with the added benefit of being able to produce a range of jams, fruit juices and preserves for other members of our family. We are also in those good years able to preserve a quantity of dried legumes such as beans and peas for several years of use as well as grow the likes of pumpkins and potatoes that will keep until the following harvest. For this water, and plenty of it is essential. Water, and plenty of it means you have the ability to produce food and it is because of this relationship when I usually talk about food I also include water as in my opinion you cannot have one without the other. Anton mentioned the term ‘self sufficiency’. Self sufficiency cannot be achieved by individual families or small groups. Larger groups/communities where there are enough people with the necessary skills to make all the required items that the people in that community require without having to rely on the industrialised system that we currently have. Butcher, Baker, Fletcher, Cook, Farmer etc. are some of the surnames we still have today and they reflect what their ancestors did in the days of yore. Today many of the skills reflected by those names have been lost by individuals and many of us rely on industrialised businesses to do many of the tasks we would so much rely on for survival after a SHTF event. Several hundreds years ago most towns and cities could have been described as self sufficient as they were able to produce all they required without the industrialisation and petroleum industry we have today. As I said earlier we are able in the good years to produce about 85 percent of our food. If I had help I would be able to cultivate more land and grow grains suitable for making bread and poultry food, olives for making oil etc. After a serious SHTF event it is my belief that survival means living in communities whereby the members of that community are able to support each other and that they have the skills to do that. The production of food is going to be of the highest priority and regardless where the communities are water is going to have to be close by and readily accessible. I have on this site mentioned this before but as I believe that it is so important I will repeat myself:- Unless you are already living where you believe that you have a good chance of surviving a SHTF scenario then I believe that you will end up struggling to survive. Thanks peter1942, you have said it so true. No need for me to put my thoughts forward now as you've said most things I would, like bring back the village.
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Post by VegHead on Jul 26, 2016 12:22:51 GMT 10
Well said Peter and in total agreement. Veg.
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Post by VegHead on Jul 22, 2016 20:49:14 GMT 10
Good point about the gravity feed. The two main tanks have a single pressure pump but they will also gravity feed quite well to the house as they are sited on higher ground. The 5000L job is only a gravity feed. It feels wrong but at the moment both main tanks are being by-passed with all roof water going into the neighbour's paddock. The 5000L tank overflow is also being diverted away from the property (it's overflow tank is also full and needs to be dumped). We also collect the roof water from the hothouse and for this we have two 220L barrels (full), and are emptied every few days by tipping them over or filling up water troughs. Seems such a waste doesn't it, but then again that's why we moved here; our number one priority was water for growing food.
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Post by VegHead on Jul 22, 2016 19:15:15 GMT 10
I doubt that it would be more than 5,000 litres and all on vegetable crops, however we use bore water mainly with 5,000 litres of fresh water kept in reserve for only the food crops. We do not water grass, berry canes or fruit trees. I do spray out actively aerated compost teas in spring and summer to the veg and cereal crops and this would add an additional 4-500 litres to the equation. We also modify our grow beds: raised in the cooler seasons to release excess water and lowered in the warmer seasons to keep the soil cool, prevent evaporation and act as wicking beds. Hope this helps Shiney.
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