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Randall
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posted May 26, 2020 02:37 PM
  
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posted June 14, 2020 05:54 PM
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posted July 01, 2020 02:53 PM
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Randall
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posted July 20, 2020 02:42 PM
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mirage29
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posted July 20, 2020 02:50 PM
Thanks again for the Bump, Randall.
I actually have NOT forgotten this thread.
You know I'm still 'dealing' with some severe environmental issues right now.I'm going to have to pull materials together for this again. The Computer Update that hijacked this computer around a week ago, has WIPED out a file of FAVS in which I specifically saved ideas FOR this thread.  I took new pictures of my Plant-Kids yesterday!   *~ (music) Hurry, It's Lovely Up Here 
(Barbra Streisand, scene On A Clear Day, garden)
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Randall
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posted August 10, 2020 02:20 PM
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posted August 31, 2020 01:57 PM
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Chanterelle
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posted September 08, 2020 09:35 AM
There’s an amazing book, I’ll have to dig it out to quote from, called The Food of a Younger Land. Someone went back to the National Archives and finished a long-abandoned Depression-era WPA project: the Federal Writers’ Program had hired a bunch of people (including a young Zora Neale Hurston) to document the traditional food ways of every state through essays and recipes. The origin of Brunswick Stew, what it’s like to go coin hunting with a pack of hounds, the ritual of a hog roast as elaborate as a Japanese tea ceremony... The only recipe I’ve ever used is the Kentucky wilted salad. You tear up your greens and toss them with salt & vinegar, then fry up some bacon & onions and toss it together while the bacon grease is still hot. Mmmmmm.... weird.... Kentucky keeps creeping in.IP: Logged |
mirage29
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posted September 08, 2020 10:11 AM
Hi Chanterelle! Thanks for posting. The name Zora Neale Hurston is very familiar, as there's a Fine Arts museum in her memory in Eatonville, nearby here.  I started this thread with the memory of my Scorpio Grandmother's Kitchen-basement bright in my mind. She had those stoves from early 1900s, that were late-1800s, which worked. She and my Taurus Grandfather had several acres on which they had a mini-farm and grew veggies. {My Taurus grandfather build their farmhouse and barn himself, by his own tools and hands.} They provided for the whole extended family. Lots of canning, mason jars lining that basement-Kitchen. Even made maple-syrup from collected sap from tree in the front yard. Those are good memories for me. With current issues now with failing economy and the plight of farmers, food in America, poverty for many more, perhaps going back to survival skills of settlers and depression era folks, could bring back skills needed to get-along with less-- and even be healthier for our bodies. So I cover nostalgia WITH practical information here. I owned a set of Southern Living magazine's Cookbooks, which were filled with those late 1800s and early 1900s photos of kitchens similar to my Scorpio Grandma's. I'm an older person, and have first-hand memories of these things. So, I'm lucky! 
I'm Blessed. Thanks for posting.
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Chanterelle
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posted September 11, 2020 07:58 AM
Oh, autocorrect... coon hunting not coin hunting, constrict not construct (different post)...
I’m a beginning/aspiring homesteader, nowhere near the level of actually producing enough to feed my family, but making progress for sure... there are a couple of mature chestnut trees on our land, so I’m very much looking forward to the harvest— and to planting at least 400 bulbs of garlic around the end of October. This has been by far my most consistently easy crop; I started with $20 worth of organic seed from a strain that someone found growing wild by the bank of a river in Oregon. I’ve been saving the better half of the harvest to re-plant every year, will probably never have to buy it again, and hopefully will actually make some money off of it next season. Also tons of blackberries and mushrooms; everything else is still either in the trial-and-error stage, or just taking its own sweet time (pawpaws, peaches, blueberries, grapes, etc.)
At some point I want to start a thread about planting by the signs— I don’t know a lot, but that’s actually my point of entry into interest in astrology. Lots of contradictory info out there as well.
Be well!🐢✨IP: Logged |
mirage29
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posted September 11, 2020 08:55 AM
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Randall
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posted September 30, 2020 05:24 PM
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posted October 21, 2020 04:25 PM
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Randall
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posted November 10, 2020 01:29 PM
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mirage29
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posted November 10, 2020 01:54 PM
I was bummed-out when our home computer was high-jacked with changes to our Windows. They WIPED OUT months of some 'saved' work {urls to use} for this thread. I was building a bank of them ahead of time. Things are kind of complicated at home here. If you don't mind more *bumps* ...?????
I was thinking of this thread ALL WEEK! haha Deeply frustrates me.
This is an interesting topic, and relevant to possible future needs. Using things that worked in the past,
and applying them to fill our future 'garden and kitchen' needs? _______________
Should I close this thread for a while, Randall? 
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Randall
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posted November 30, 2020 05:06 PM
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Chanterelle
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posted December 01, 2020 06:50 AM
Okay, here’s one: I recently learned how to make flour out of acorns. Not something I highly recommend unless you’re feeling particularly ambitious or desperate, but it’s survival food. White oak — benefit: the skin underneath the hard shell detaches easily. Drawback: they germinate quickly, therefore need to be processed or frozen almost immediately. Red oak — opposite on both counts. So you shell and peel the acorns, crush or grind them into small chunks, then soak them in water to leach out the tannins. This should probably take 5-6 changes of water (maybe even more)— taste for bitterness/astringency once you get to the point where the water isn’t changing color after an hour or so. Then you can grind it up to a flour consistency and dry it in the oven on low heat (or just out in the sun, if necessary).IP: Logged |
Chanterelle
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posted December 11, 2020 10:49 AM
I’ll be learning to skin, gut and cook a squirrel this weekend. IP: Logged |
Randall
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posted December 27, 2020 02:44 PM
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Chanterelle
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posted December 29, 2020 04:55 AM
I’ve been debating how much detail to share on this... The squirrel stew was not bad, the hickory nut milk was delicious. This was part of a nature connection and wilderness skills program I signed up for a few months ago. I did indeed manage to skin a squirrel without retching or breaking the tailbone— shall I continue?
(The nut milk is easy but tedious— just crush, simmer for hours, strain out chunks, add honey or something.)IP: Logged |
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