Last August, I built a solar food dryer according to the plans in Eban Fodor’s book, The Solar Food Dryer. It’s the blue one in the picture and I’ll refer to that as the SunWorks (SW) design. I wanted to know if I could actually dehydrate food with the sun in humid Virginia. The answer is Yes! In [...]
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Cutting a Rye Cover Crop at Pollen Shed
Posted in biointensive, cover crops, garden planning, homesteading, organic gardening, permaculture, tagged biointensive, cover crops, garden planning, homesteading, organic gardening, permaculture on May 17, 2011 | 9 Comments »
Last week I cut the cereal rye growing in the beds that will hold my Bloody Butcher corn. The rye was shedding pollen. At that point it most likely won’t grow back if cut. Cut it earlier and it will, cut it later and it will already be on its way to seed. Cereal rye [...]
Grain Mill Comparison: Country Living vs GrainMaker
Posted in grain mills, homesteading, permaculture, sustainable lifestyles, tagged grain mills, homesteading, permaculture, sustainable lifestyles on May 3, 2011 | 10 Comments »
In April, 1999 I became the proud owner of a Country Living Grain Mill. It was a big purchase for our family, but I had been using a Corona mill occasionally for about ten years and had decided it was time to get serious about having fresh ground flour. The Corona was good for cornmeal, [...]
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