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posted 5 years ago

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This is a badge bit (BB) that is part of the PEP curriculum. Completing this BB is part of getting the sand badge in Animal Care.

It smells a little like an old BBQ grill that needs to be cleaned. By applying it to a tree trunk it will repel deer and other tree nibblers for years. It is an odd process made dominantly of bones.

Here are some articles and threads on it:
- Holzer Bone Sauce Thread
- Sepp Holzer Bone Sauce in Holzer Permaculture Article

To complete this BB, the minimum requirements are:
- You must make at least one pint of Holzer's bone sauce

To document your completion, provide proof of the following as pics or video (<2 minutes):
- Your setup to make the bone sauce, with bones ready to cook
- The fire
- The fire after it’s out
- The setup being opened and pulling out the first spoonful of bone sauce
- Jar holding at least one pint

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Kyle D Burdick

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posted 3 years ago

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Two matching 5 quart cast iron pots, wired together with 4 beef leg bone chunks on top, held up by a double layer of 1/4" hardware cloth, cut to overhang the outside edge all the way around, sealed with native clay. I also wired the two pots together, which helped later when I used the wire to pick the whole thing out of the ground.
Baked for 3+ hours, initially hot full fire, then low flame with coals, left overnight covered with soil and opened the next morning. Top of sauce was black, bones nearly charcoal and brittle, odor reminiscent of a really really dirty BBQ grill, very intense, brown colored underneath top black layer.

Yield ~1.5 pints.

I can't wait to try it out.

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