[Homestead] Seed shortages
bob ford
bobford79 at yahoo.com
Sun Dec 14 13:53:41 EST 2008
Leslie, always double check to make sure the 'list' email address is in your 'to' reply address. This reply only came to me, though you had comments and replies to other list members. I don't know about goat butter, I've never thought about it? The fint is not a bad idea, in any case......................................................
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--- On Sun, 12/14/08, Leslie <cayadopi at yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: Leslie <cayadopi at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Seed shortages
> To: bobford79 at yahoo.com
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Date: Sunday, December 14, 2008, 11:36 AM
> I agree with that ! Big Biz sure seems to gravitate towards a method of making people dependent on them.
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> For several years I've been looking at everything I touch or eat from the point of view of what would I do if I couldn't buy this in the store anymore. It doesn't matter the reason (maybe no money, or many no supplies
> available).
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> Like Toilet Paper - a kid from the middle east explained they don't use it - they have a thing that resembles a small tea pot and they rinse themselves off.
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> Of how about olive oil or veggie oil ---- that means using lard - unless someone here knows how to make veggie oil. (Or butter, for those that have a cow - hey can we make butter form goat milk?).
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Bev & I were talking a few weeks ago about flint stone - I cheated I bought an estimated 25 years worth of flints.
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> How about making material for clothes,,,, I have no idea how to do that.
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> Or even replacing knives used in butchering...
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> That vacuum cleaner, wonderful while I can use it, will need to have a back-up non-electric sweeper.
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> I did learn that at least one of the varieties of sorghum is used to make brooms, and those tall straight yucca (catcu) flower stick would be perfect broom handles. The also can be used to make the T shaped mop that you swing old rags around, instead of sponge mops, or string mops.
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There are even ingredients in the kitchen I have no idea how to make, like molasses, or vinegar, or baking soda or b.powder..... I care more about those things, than whether or not my TV will convert to a digital signal.... LOL. It's much more important.
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> (Did the TV industry needed revival on sagging sales....LOL)
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> And everybody, THANKS for the great links. That one on the desert.... check out the one on non-electric, non-solar refrigeration in the desert !!! That one is such a simple idea. Not sure why they went to all the trouble with the barrels to make storage containers for their jars of food, but still out of the box :-) And if I ever don't have access to the "airplane hanger" (my dad's version of a garage).... I will remember that one. There is a lot of mesquite on miles and miles of uninhabited
property around here. Pretty sure I saw mesquite flour at a local farm type store. Will check it out. I bought
> mesquite bee honey there the last time.
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> --- On Sun, 12/14/08, bob ford <bobford79 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
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> Nicely written, Bev. I need, occasionally, to be reminded
> of concepts to which
> I normally give little thought.........
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