Mart Hale

The old timers would put seeds on top of a hot compost heap to keep seeds warm.


If you have wood chips dumped at your location putting the seeds on top of that pile  can keep them warm.

Mike Barkley wrote:Mine is the medium sized one. The stainless steel version. It holds 1/2 gallon if overfilled slightly more than it should be. I can't send a video because I'm not going to make a youtube or vimeo account.

Ok that explains why yours is faster,    I have the basecamp model 6 1/2 cups.

Mike Barkley wrote:Mine boils water in about 4 minutes. The trick is to use the right tinder to get that beast flaming fast & hot.

You can't cook in them but you can cook ON them. They now have some nice accessories that allows that. I think they might be new since this thread first posted. Here it is ... Kelly Kettle info.

I would like to see a video of that...

What sized is your KK?

I like 3rd party testing......

The results from these tests sure are troubling.

I find "off grid living"    for most is moving from the electrical grid to the propane / gasoline grid.

It seems you move from one grid to another grid....


Through the years I moved up to 5,000 watts of solar,  with propane/wood as my back up means.       There are cloudy days,  and there needs to be plan B for power when the clouds take over...

The advantage we have today is there are thousands of videos on youtube that show how to be off grid and one can learn from the mistakes of others before they go out and waste time energy money on things that do not work.

I don't have a dryer, I found that a powerful fan on my clothes works great for drying them.      I also use a dehumidifier  to remove that moist air from the room....    This has worked for me...      

I think of it as a learning curve, when you do something new, you have to experience the problems to know how to cope with the problems.   So perhaps going out camping may help get a good dose of reality of what it is to be  making your own power.       It can be done, but the learning curve is included.

Interesting,    use of quartz tube heating....

Use of alum shavings mixed with sand looks promising....

I found this, thought I would share...     Location where broken items can be fixed.

https://rumble.com/v1c8t3a-the-tool-librarys-dare-to-repair-cafe-returns-saturday.html?e9s=src_v1_s%2Csrc_v1_s_o&sci=6798a07d-393d-4778-8f0c-7782e8512687



https://www.repaircafe.org/en/visit/

Interesting, I don't see her soaking the cassava when she makes the flour....    

Nigerian method of making the flower with bitter cassava..


Soaking for 3 days, the skin comes right off...  interesting.