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  • From: Leslie <cayadopi AT yahoo.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Cool food storage
  • Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 17:48:25 -0800 (PST)

I just found out where to get the big plastic food drums, which packing
house.  They sell them for under $10,,,, 50 gallon barrels, airtight lids w/
clamps. 
 
 


--- On Tue, 12/9/08, EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:

From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Cool food storage
To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Tuesday, December 9, 2008, 6:49 PM

I store everything in mason jars..
beans, rice, mixes, dried herbs, seasoning blends, loose tea, barley,
flour, grits...

B

Lynn Wigglesworth wrote:
> Mason jars work well, too. I have a bunch of half-gallon Mason jars, which

> aren't recommended for canning anymore, so I use them for dry goods
> (wheaberries, at the moment).
>
> Lynn Wigglesworth
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Leslie" <cayadopi AT yahoo.com>
> To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 3:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Cool food storage
>
>
> Do you (or anyone) think I'd be wasting some money buying some of the
larger
> plastic commercial food grade storage containers, they are tightly sealed,

> from the local packing houses for the purpose of storing dried beans
(above
> ground).
>
> I had problems in Miami from time to time with bolweevils (or something
like
> them) that would invade my stored dried food. I had tuperware which did a
> decent job, until it got old and the weevils finally managed to drill a
> little hole thru the plastic and invaded....
>
>
>
> --- On Tue, 12/9/08, Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:
>
> From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Cool food storage
> To: cayadopi AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Tuesday, December 9, 2008, 3:02 PM
>
> On Dec 9, 2008, at 12:56 PM, Leslie wrote:
>
>> ah, ok.
>>
>> I was wondering, because there are a lot of "critters" in
the
> desert
>> that burrow underground and would love a bunch of free meals without
>> having to surface. A number of them are quite small in size.
>
> In all home food production enterprises, it is prudent to expect
> losses and plan accordingly.
>
> That said, perhaps an outer impenetrable surface, say a plastic
> garbage can, with inner dirt and straw surrounding the veggies. Good
> experiment.
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Excellent humor, indeed!

I dunno, though - my adolescence, in the fifties (no, that was the 19-50's,
silly) included TV episodes of the Beverly Hillbillies, wherein possum seemed
to be a delicacy, and Granny Clampett delighted in serving up a bunch of it
and passing it around the table on a long, forked stick.

We (former now-deceased husband and I) had - briefly - a boarder from Mexico
- in the days before anything that smacked of 'immigration' was a crime. We
also had a fruitless mulberry tree just outside the kitchen window, which was
inhabited by a family of squirrels.

Lemme tell ya - he had his eye on those squirrels. By the time I got wind of
it, he already had struck a deal with the other members of the masonry crew
whereby they were all bidding on the first available squirrel that was brought
in DOA.

I have spent the last half-hour trying to devise a poem to Sir Kristopher
Bacon, in which the last line would rhyme with the word 'impossumble'.

No luck.
Sandy
Mid-Mojave
Eating cold pizza donated earlier today by a neighbor down the road.

On the serious side, I would like to know...to what are possums most closely
related? Rodents - right? How far up the food chain do we have to go before
we get to a species that's...er...um - edible? And skin-able? I am of the
firm belief that every part of the animal should be used. I have a friend who
makes jewelry from rattlesnake bones and fine copper wire. Pretty - but kinda
scratchy.


In a message dated 12/9/2008 4:57:41 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
bobford79 AT yahoo.com writes:

Hah. Excellent humor, Lisa


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--- On Tue, 12/9/08, Lisa K.V. Perry <lisakvperry AT gmail.com> wrote:

I hope to Hades that we are not ever so hungry that I am inclined to cook
> opossum. There is an abundance of wildlife around here including all of
the above and those animals sound far more appetizing. I've tried snake and
frog before and they were okay. Heaven help us lour list members if we're all
suddenly salivating for an opposum dinner. We'll knowthe straits are indeed
dire, or we're feeling rather adventurous.
>
> lkvp
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