One of these sourdough starters goes back to the Klondike Gold Rush! According to Karl De Smedt, the man behind …
Cute! 3-in-1 Breakfast Station
Cook eggs, toast bread, and make coffee. Large family size non-stick griddle coffee maker brews up to 4-cups of coffee …
20 Perishable Foods You Can Freeze For Later
You likely already keep a supply of basics like vegetables, fruits, meats, poultry, and grains in your freezer. Some items …
Make Homemade Vanilla Extract
You can make your own vanilla extract for a small fortune! 12 vanilla pods and some vodka. Mind you, it …
Canning Meat (Super Easy Raw Pack) : Homesteading Family
This is an excellent primer on canning meat. The lady is a great teacher (although the very last instructions about …
Billy and Dec’s Bronze-Age Beer!
While beer drinking was common throughout the Far East nearly 5,000 years ago and growing evidence exists of the same …
Glyphosate: The other side
I was away last week and someone in the office posted a piece about the Monsanto case where the jury …
Everything You Want (and Need) To Know About Long-Term Canned Food Storage. (Plus 10 Signs To Look For When It’s Spoiled)
You’ve likely got a nice supply of canned goods in your pantry and food storage inventory, but how long do …
Cured egg yolk recipe. Use instead of grated cheese.
Can’t eat cheese? Miss grating an extra taste over your pasta sauce or salad? Try cured egg yolk. It’s salty …
Preserving eggs the 18th century way!
Imagine no refrigeration. How would you keep your eggs fresh? Here are some techniques you may not have considered. And …
Fake and tainted honey
Everyone loves honey. But is it real? Cheap imports of counterfeit honey are endangering beekeeping around the world, and the …
It’s official! Coffee is awesome!
According to a new report, but not for the first time, coffee is being hailed as really good for you. …
Home Canning and Botulism
Home canning is an excellent way to preserve garden produce and share it with family and friends. But it can …
How to make Cooler Corn
When you run out of stovetop space but need to make a couple dozen cobs? Cooler, butter and boiling water …
Everything you ever wanted to know about tuna…
Yukitaka Yamaguchi is known as the Tuna King of Omakase. Step inside his shop at the Tsukiji fish market. And learn …
Catching , cleaning and cooking Geoducks (Razor clams)
There are a ton of ways to lure one of these clams from the sand, but this looks the easiest. …
Eden with an elevator: Gardening for apartment dwellers
How can you grow a little food, brighten any room and bring the great outdoors indoors, even if you live …
Would you eat lab-grown meat?
This company studies the molecular properties of non-animal products like beans and finds the ones that mimic animals. It also …
How to make the best compost (Just add pee!)
How to make the best garden compost – totally for free No matter how rich your soil, if you want …
VIDEO GUIDE: Growing veggies from scraps
Love this! How to have everlasting veggies! I did this two years ago with some green onions and I now …
WEIRD: Listen to rhubarb grow!
Rhubarb grows really fast, about an inch per day. And because it grows out from a ‘crown’, the stalks are …
Fishing for shrimp on horseback
This is an amazing technique. Filmed back in the 1920s and 30s, these are Belgian horse fishermen trawling up shrimp. I …
Mozzarella- the gateway cheese! (And Ricotta!) Get 2-for-1
OK, so I believe the Italians are the best at this so visit this copyrighted site for great mozzarella and …
Salvation Army opens cheap grocery store in ‘food desert’
Baltimore today got the country’s inaugural location of DMG Foods (after the Salvation Army’s motto, “Doing the Most Good”). Called …
Survival pantry: Do’s, Don’ts and Must Haves
Salt: It’s a great preservative and adds years to the shelf-life of foods. Note that some of the salty canned goods …
5 Primitive Oven Concepts
From digging her own clay and hauling non-river stones, to lacing boughs, to recycling concrete blocks, to digging simple ‘grave’ …
4 tips that will help you to identify plants and fungus
Looking to identify more plants and mushrooms this year? Here are a few strategies that may improve your skills. Here …
Primitive Culture: How to Cook an Egg in a Potato (Purple Yam, actually!)
A great guide from Cambodia on cooking in a fire pit. Here he bakes eggs in a hard potato-like yam. …
Scientists are breeding super-nutritious crops to help solve global hunger
A week or so ago I covered the amazing bio-agricultural chemist, Norman Borlaug, and how he saved India from staving …
One huge reason the Population Bomb didn’t kill us
Remember when we were all going to die? And when if you didn’t eat your dinner your mom said “There’s …