Kitty Davidhizar

I've used a stainless steel small percolator since a time when the electric went off, and I had this pot because of prepping. Lehmans has them in several sizes. It had a plastic bubble top but I bought a glass one online. So now I'm all stainless and glass. I put water in the pot on a high burner. Put coffee in the basket and set it aside until the water starts boiling. Then I lower the burner to medium and set the basket in.  It will start percolating immediately. (If you put the basket in cold water and leave it on high, it will boil over if you don't turn it down fast enough, and it will seem like waiting forever for it to boil. This way you just go about your other tasks and when you see it's boiling, stick the basket in.) I don't really time it. With the bubble top you can see that it's coffee. Some say you should put a paper filter in to keep out the oils.  Others say the oils are good, so who you gonna believe?  I just use the stainless filter. I like dark roast and drink it black.

No. I like parboiled rice as I don't like sticky rice. It's already been in water so they say it has less arsenic. I usually add coconut oil and onions. Make it in a frying pan. So easy.

I wonder why no one has mentioned the venerable Sears Roebuck catalog. That's what they used to use in the out houses when we went to visit my cousins in Michigan. Oh, that's right there's no Sears catalog any more.
Anyway, I'm saving my phone directories for that purpose for TEOTWAWKI. Though they keep getting smaller and smaller.

Does anyone know if there has been an investigation into whether the fruit of full sized trees, as opposed to dwarf trees, is more nutritious, because the roots can reach further to get to more minerals, etc. in the ground?

I think I've listened to all your podcasts. There's one thing I don't get with permaculture. How do annuals work? I know some plants selfseed but that is not a sure thing, right? How would people get all their food from permaculture? There are not enough perennials in the northern climates to provide everything people eat. I drive past monoculture fields of berries and corn and wheat. But how would enough of this food be produced for all the people in a permaculture based society?