Nancy Eason

I have your Off the Grid cookbook and love it. Would love to see some gluten free sourdough options and recipes for sourdough crackers. I love the crunch! I think others have covered anything else that I would like to see. I'm not into chatty recipes, either, but using a side bar as in Nourishing Traditions might be an option. Photos and artwork are always welcome. Looking forward to it!

Do any of you have experience with using electroculture in your gardens? I've been gardening for decades but just learned about this technique now. Did it make a positive difference in your garden?
https://www.electroculture.life/

Perfect! Thanks!

Super helpful, thank you! I've watched a couple of these and will check out the rest. Do you know if anyone has written a book or manual about how to build a rocket mass heater or stove?

I belong to a freedom-loving group in northern Colorado that is learning about various prepper and self-sufficiency measures we can take for ourselves and our families. We want to learn more about energy generation, including rocket mass heaters. We could just watch one of the videos on permies, but if there's someone who lives nearby that has experience with building and/or using a RMH, we would love to have you come speak to our group. Please contact me if that's you!

Nancy

One of the things I’ve struggled with other cheese books has been the minimum batch size, so I’ve been experimenting with making batches as small as possible, as well as making cheeses in less-than-ideal conditions to see how much different types of cheese can tolerate deviations from the recipes and less-than-ideal aging conditions, as in real life things happen and not many homesteaders can always be there every time to do each stage of the cheesemaking.[

I especially like the idea above of making cheeses in less than ideal circumstances and conditions. I love David Asher's book as it set me free to some degree from exacting recipes, but it's still a little intense for many people. I love his idea of using kefir as a starter. But I keep thinking, did people in the old days know the temperature of their milk? I doubt it. And did they sterilize their equipment every time, if ever? Probably not. So cheesemaking for homesteaders sounds like a good idea. Focus on a few easy, forgiving cheeses. I am looking forward to seeing how your Tomme cheese comes out. It's aging in my little mini fridge cheese "cave". I love your cookbook!!!

Definitely dry, warm spring. We usually don't have a ton of grasshoppers until August around here, but the plants are big enough then that they are still able to produce well. But not this year! They started hatching two months early in June when a lot of the plants were just getting started. They didn't have a chance.

I am trying a homeopathic approach. I made a tincture of grasshoppers, let it sit for a week, then made a 6X solution that I diluted in a watering can and then watered the plants. I only had to catch about a dozen hoppers to make the tincture. It's still a little too soon to tell, but it appears that the plants that got the remedy are hanging in there and starting to grow, which is almost miraculous given how many hoppers we have this year. At this point my fingers are crossed. Time will tell!