tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70516097272723940862024-03-14T09:54:07.504-07:00The Home FrontBy Stephanie Dayle. This is not a 'city girl' moves to the country blog, this is how I grew up and how I still live today. As a writer and editor for the American Preppers Network I use this space share my articles and the goings on around the farm. Follow me down this dirt road back to a simpler self-reliant life. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00029307154132762913noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7051609727272394086.post-19860971141913273182014-07-29T11:58:00.000-07:002014-07-29T21:56:09.310-07:00How to Make and Can Old Fashioned Pickled Beets!<div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 10.909090995788574px; text-indent: 1.5em;">
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">I originally wrote and published this article for <a href="http://americanpreppersnetwork.com/2013/09/canning-pickled-beets.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">American Preppers Network</span></a> and have moved it here to my personal site and updated the information, of course with permission. </span></i></div>
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It’s that time of year when the beets in your garden should be finishing up. When I was a kid our choices were to eat them fresh, which I loved, or pressure can them, and I despised eating canned beets. They were the source of many late nights at the dinner table while I stared down the “you may not get up until you eat your beets” ultimatum.</div>
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As an adult I learned that they could also be pickled, my mom was not fond of pickled beets so she never preserved them that way <em>(you can also dehydrate them but that’s another article)</em>. I love old fashioned pickled beets, they are by far one of my most favorite snacks and side dishes! They are a far cry from their pressure canned counterparts. Want to try something unique? Slice them thinly (or 'french' them if you are familiar with that slicing technique) and apply them to a sandwich featuring cured meat, like salami.</div>
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And by “old fashioned” I mean they are pickled using a sweet brine with traditional ingredients. </div>
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<strong>Why Grow Beets?</strong></div>
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For some beets are an acquired taste - like coffee or beer. This means you should keep trying them even if your first impressions weren't really good. The taste will grow on you, as your taste buds learn to appreciate the flavor. Why bother? Because they are a great survival food in your garden to name just one reason, so keep reading oh great finicky one.</div>
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Beets are a quick growing, hardy root vegetable. They are cold hardy so beets are a great crop to get in the ground as soon as possible for an early harvest giving you food when nothing else is ready yet. Beets can be steamed, roasted (my favorite), grilled, shredded for salad, and of course they can be preserved by being canned or pickled. </div>
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They are also packed with potassium, magnesium, folate, and B vitamins! In other words, they are really good for you (and for any of you who are a possible 'mom-to-be'). Beets are also really good for livestock and are often fed to cattle, horses, and are also good for chickens. The greens are completely eatable and are often prepared like ‘<a href="http://stephaniedayle1.blogspot.com/2013/06/how-to-make-your-own-sugar.html" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">collard greens</span></a>,’ beets can also be juiced or dehydrated. Pigs, cattle, chickens and horses also enjoy the greens so nothing goes to waste. <span style="color: blue; outline: none; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0050099E8/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0050099E8&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Click here for heirloom beet seed</span>.</a></span></div>
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<em>Here is a quick ‘how to’ on canning pickled beets!</em></div>
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<em>(recipe courtesy of the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005SK6Y1Q/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B005SK6Y1Q&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Ball Blue Book</span></a>)</em></div>
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<li><strong>3 quarts beets (double recipe if you have more)</strong></li>
<li><strong>2 C sugar</strong></li>
<li><strong>2 sticks cinnamon</strong></li>
<li><strong>1 Tbsp whole allspice</strong></li>
<li><strong>1/2 Tbsp of whole cloves (I add this is variation of the recipe)</strong></li>
<li><strong>1 1/2 tsp salt</strong></li>
<li><strong>3 1/2 cups vinegar (use cider vinegar)</strong></li>
<li><strong>1 1/2 C water</strong></li>
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<em>Remove tops and roots, then wash beets.</em></div>
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<em><b>To peel beets:</b> Cook beets for 20-30 in a large stock pot or <strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0001UZL8A/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0001UZL8A&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">canner</span></a></strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0001UZL8A/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0001UZL8A&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #336699; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"> </a></em><em>(</em><em>like pictured above)</em><em>, until you can just barely stick a fork them, then run them under cold water or stick them in a tub of cold water and peel them easily with your hands. </em><br />
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<li><strong>Wash beets, cook beets, peel and then quarter beets.</strong></li>
<li><strong>Combine everything except beets in large sauce pot.</strong></li>
<li><strong>Bring to boil, reduce heat and simmer for 15 minutes.</strong></li>
<li><strong>Remove cinnamon sticks.</strong></li>
<li><strong>Pack beets into hot jars leaving 1/4″ headspace.</strong></li>
<li><strong>Ladle hot liquid over beets leaving 1/4″ headspace.</strong></li>
<li><strong>Remove air bubbles, then add lids and bands.</strong></li>
<li><strong>Process for 30 minutes in a<span style="color: blue;"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0001UZL8A/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0001UZL8A&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">hot water bath canner</a>.</span></strong></li>
<li><strong>Yield: Approximately 6 pints or 3 quarts.</strong></li>
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<em>All ingredients combined and simmering – this is the sweet brine ready to go!</em></div>
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<em>Sterilized jars filled with peeled beets – ready for the brine.</em></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><em>**This recipe and process is approved for safety – I even asked the WSU Extension Office if adding a few cloves was ok – they said it would not alter the safety of the recipe. Many people have written articles about pickling beets on the internet, any similarities are merely coincidence.**</em></span></div>
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While there is no magic way to do it "right" (there is always the chance that one or more new chickens will be targeted and killed or pecked to bleeding) I can tell you what I have done for years and years with a good rate of success (never lost a single bird) and little things I have employed to prevent that from happening. Please keep in mind other people have used other techniques that have worked well for them too.<br />
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I start out by waiting till the chicks (I am referring to dual purpose laying hens mostly, meat breed grow faster) are 3 to 4 months old (sometimes older) until they have all grown up feathers and have STOPPED making baby chick noises (this gives them a little more size advantage and for some reason the old hens aren't as aggressive if they aren't making chick noises).<br />
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If my momma chicken has hatched out a clutch of chicks, I will leave the chicks in with her (in a separate area from the main flock) then when they are about half the size of her with all grown up feathers, and have basically stopped making baby chicks noises. Then I will introduce them to the main flock all together at once usually after dark. Momma chicken remembers the flock and her place in it so there is usually no problems there PLUS she will protect the chicks fiercely - this has worked EXCEEDINGLY well for me while introducing a hen with chicks back to the flock.<br />
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You will notice that as time goes by mamma chicken will spend less and less time with her chicks until she no longer treats them any different from any other member of the flock - no further action on your part is required to "wean" the chicks from the mom. Nature will take care of that for you and before you know it momma chicken will be laying eggs again.<br />
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</span></u></b> I don't let them "warm up" to each other by building adjoining pens where they can see each other or anything like that. It just adds alot more work to the introduction and in the end didn't ease the aggression of the established flock. There is nothing wrong with that approach, I just have never noticed that it helped that much. Chickens are birds not people, and therefore will not act like people.<br />
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When I introduce chicks to the main flock I do it at night in pitch dark - I don't even use a flash light. Some people say that the chickens wake up in the daylight and realize they have new flock members but the shock of introduction is reduced because the chickens don't recall when exactly the new birds came to be there. By default the new chickens just became part of the flock, they now just have to get their "flock hierarchy" figured out - where as if the new birds were introduced in the daylight the existing flock will more actively try to repel the invaders (and that's how they are usually seen - as a threat).<br />
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I don't close them up in the coop together for several months (meaning, I will leave the coop door open to the run day and night) I find when I close them up - the older hens will just use the enclosed space as an excuse to beat the crap out of the new girls. Sometimes the new chicks will choose to perch outside at night for a long time - but eventually they will follow the rest into the coop for the night. Once or twice I have had to catch newbies, and toss their little butts into the coop (but I usually only have to do it once or twice before it dawns on them that it is just easier to go in the coop with the rest of the grown-up chickens than be caught and tossed inside).<br />
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<b>CHICKEN TIP: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0050GP6GW/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0050GP6GW&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Long handled fishing nets</span></a> (which are commonly on sale in the spring) are really handy for quickly and safely catching flighty chickens who need to be relocated or examined in person. </b><br />
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Our run is quite large and has multiple outdoor perches - so there is PLENTY of room for the new chicks to get away from the older hens, I have found this to be VERY helpful in preventing chick deaths. I also make sure there are 2 or 3 waterers and feeders spaced out around the run - this prevents one hen from guarding the only source of food or water.<br />
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I also add them in all at once - they find safety in numbers and it tires out my old hens to chase around 4 or 5 new young hens. Then once introduced, I will check on them frequently and if any chicks are getting pecked to bleeding I will hit them with a little <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CAG7I20/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00CAG7I20&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Wonder Dust</b></span></a> - this is nice because the Wonder Dust clots the blood, stops the bleeding and makes the blood look like mud. Red blood will invite even more pecking from other flock members who otherwise would not have participated in the pecking.<br />
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BUT do know that there will be some butt kicking that goes on as they figure out their place in the flock - as humans we want to intervene and make them all get along, but I have found that they will find peace faster if I let them work things out (separating and then recombining sometimes helps, more often, is doesn't) even if it seems rather unfair and harsh. They will squawk, scream, chase each other, older hens will grab newer ones by the sensitive feathers on the back of the head. Just keep an eye out for blood, and within a couple of weeks they will usually figure things out. For months later there will be the occasional snipe from behind by an older hen - just reminding them that they are on the bottom of the pecking order, but it should grow to be a rare and maybe even humorous occasion.<br />
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Other things I will do to help is give them a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003LEWC3K/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B003LEWC3K&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><b>flock block</b></span></a> or two to peck on - maybe a couple of heads of cabbage, some oatmeal, just little things here and there to keep their interest off of the new chicks and on other things. Its been proven that installing <a href="http://stephaniedayle1.blogspot.com/2013/05/do-it-yourself-chicken-nipple-waterers.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><b>nipple waterers</b></span></a> also helps to reduce pecking as well.<br />
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I actually like doing this in mid summer because my chickens are usually confined to the coop and run during that time since my gardens are in high gear producing. By the end of summer when the chickens get to free-range again, they have figured life out and are all one cohesive flock. I prefer it that way when they are outside of the protection of the run ranging. I don't like having a separate little group of newbies that are hanging out by themselves without the rooster, laying eggs in mysterious spots, trying to roost in trees for the night or that can't figure out how to get back into the coop....<br />
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But like I said this works for me and my situation, it may not work for your situation - hopefully there is something in this post that you will find helpful. If not - there are many other articles on internet covering the subject. Just remember that the worst can still happen, you can do everything right and still lose a chick during introductions. Take it as a learning experience and part of owning chickens, all we can do is our best. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00029307154132762913noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7051609727272394086.post-59575892209569060192014-03-29T07:30:00.000-07:002014-03-31T15:09:33.410-07:00Consider raising meat chickens<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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By Stephanie Dayle via <a href="http://americanpreppersnetwork.com/2012/12/consider-raising-meat-chickens.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The American Preppers Network</span></a> (I wrote this originally for the American Preppers Network - and have since moved it here to my personal site with updated information)<br />
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I would like to take a stab at convincing anyone who can, to raise meat chickens. Not so much for the sake of prepping, but for the sake of self-reliance, although, you can never go wrong learning to raise your own food as an emergency preparedness skill. If you are a meat eater, like me, raising meat chickens reconnects you to your food supply and increases your level of self-reliance.<br />
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It makes you fully realize the work, the love, and the effort that goes into your food. I understand a lot of you live in the city and are only allowed to have a limited number of chickens, if any at all, so I respect your decision to keep only laying hens. But, if you do live where it is allowed and you have the space please consider giving it a try. All things are connected and you can fully appreciate it, when you see it, do it, and smell it first-hand.<br />
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Raising one batch of your own meat chickens will make you think twice about reaching for that hormone enriched wrapped chicken meat on the shelf. Not because you feel sorry for it, but because for the first time you truly know that your chicken tastes like real chicken, and you may begin to wonder why that chicken on the shelf does not. You may start to compare the life your chickens lived to those of commercially raised ones.<br />
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My meat chickens live a pampered happy life; and are not 'easy' to care for. When asked by my friend, "How can you work so hard for something you are just going to kill in the end?" My answer is, "I live in service to my animals as they will die in service to me."<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">How to Begin:</span></b><br />
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Start with a small group of meat chickens - don't worry about ordering anything fancy. When your local feed store gets some <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.backyardchickens.com/products/cornish-cross" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Cornish cross</span></a> </span>chicks in go get a handful of those, if you want five chickens to put in your freezer get six or seven of them because a chick or two may die despite your best efforts that's just the way it goes. If they all live, you can sell extras at market price to your friends or family and recover some of your costs.<br />
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Cornish cross chicks are one of the most popular breeds to get for meat chickens, are widely available and usually inexpensive. Try to keep costs under $10 per bird (that includes the chicks, shipping, AND feed). The cost of the chick matters; think of this not as a hobby, but providing for yourself on a very limited budget.<br />
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There is so much negative information on the internet on this type of chicken that I often see first time meat chicken buyers skip over them. The truth is, they are probably the easiest and cheapest to raise. Most problems with Cornish Cross Chickens (technically they are a hybrid not a real breed, and therefore cannot reproduce) are caused by people waiting too long to butcher them, and/or over feeding them. An easy way to avoid overfeeding them is after they are several weeks old, to give them food during the day and remove it at night. When to butcher them is purely up to you. So if you can avoid those two pitfalls you should do really well with them.<br />
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Cornish cross birds grow fast, so it costs less to feed them - most Cornish cross birds are ready for butchering at around 8-10 weeks. This is usually a good couple weeks before other meat breeds are ready, and several months earlier (if not more) than most "dual purpose" breed birds<span style="color: blue;"> <a href="http://stephaniedayle1.blogspot.com/2013/03/why-meat-chickens-fit-into-our-food.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">(click here for a side by side cost comparison of Cornish Cross chicken to Dual Purpose breed chickens)</span></a></span>. After you've raised a batch and decided that you can handle the process - then explore other meat breeds, cornish cross is just the tip of the iceberg.<br />
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There is very little that you will need to purchase for your birds besides plenty of food, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002YUGCQ/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0002YUGCQ&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">a heat light</span> </a>and maybe some bedding. You can make feeders and waterers from repurposed materials - <a href="http://americanpreppersnetwork.com/2012/05/how-to-simple-diy-chicken-feeder-and-waterer.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">to see an article on that click here</span></a>. You can keep your chicks in old stock tanks, or kiddie pools, and you can make a makeshift <a href="http://www.queenacresonline.com/chickentractor.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">chicken pen or chicken tractor</span></a> fairly cheaply for them when they are full grown. However, in my honest opinion, free ranging these birds is over rated - these chickens are bred to grow fast off of store-bought food, not grass and bugs.<br />
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It seems to me free ranging Cornish X birds make the owners far more happy than the chickens. When I turn mine out they don't seem nearly as interested in scratching or hunting for bugs as my layer hens and they usually follow me around in hopes I will give them food, it's not going to hurt them or make them "less healthy" to keep them in a pen. Just make sure their food is of good quality and that they always have lots of clean fresh water. This breed is designed for that.<br />
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When I butcher the birds I do so quickly to minimize stress. I use a block, or <a href="http://razorfamilyfarms.com/animals/chickens/kill-them-with-kindness-how-to-make-and-use-a-killing-cone/#" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">a cone</span></a> and I don't make the others watch. You can catch the blood in a bucket and add it to your garden. You can save all the random parts, if not for you (I so love chicken hearts, livers, and gizzards - even the feet are eatable) then for your dog or cat's food <a href="http://stephaniedayle1.blogspot.com/2013/02/canning-homemade-dog-food-recipe-and.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">(click here for a homemade dog food recipe)</span></a>. Their manure is scraped from the pen and composted, then later added back into the garden which will produce some of the garden scraps I will feed to the chickens the following year.<br />
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When you cook one of your birds, you turn the carcass into chicken broth that will make lovely homemade soups and stock. The only thing left of them will be a pile of bones which you can dry in your oven or BBQ and turn into <a href="http://www.ehow.com/how_8651934_make-own-blood-bone-meal.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">bone meal</span></a> - that can also go back in the garden. Hardly anything is wasted with each part of the process supporting something else.<br />
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Raising your own food teaches children AND adults many lessons, some that would be invaluable during a long-term emergency. It teaches you nothing ever works right the first try and it teaches you humility and how to adapt. It teaches you responsibility and the true value of a meal. It also teaches you compassion and to be thankful for even little things, and it teaches you that even the most trusted dog can benefit from a good fence.<br />
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Meat chickens are time-consuming and just like anything else, nothing is free, and good things come with hard work. My Hubby and I both work full-time jobs and we are still able to raise a small batch of 25 and get them butchered, so maybe you can too. Start thinking about what you may need to accommodate a small batch of meat chickens in the spring. Acquire and make things slowly so you get best prices on materials, then, when March comes around and that familiar peeping sound is heard in your local feed and farm supply stores, you'll be ready.<br />
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It’s that time of year again, when local feed stores and farm supply stores have tanks of little baby chicks out on display. I can hear their cute repetitive peeping from here calling me to take them home. While this at first may seem like a free petting zoo opportunity to some parents, the people who end up buying those chicks for food, eggs or to be future pets all while hoping that they will live, may think differently.<br />
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Here are some quick and easy guidelines for parents the next time you cruise through the feed store with your kids that will keep the chicks safer and the kids safer. For those who are familiar with chickens and poultry this is old news, but maybe it will help feed store customers that don't have chicken, or someone who is just getting into the 'rural swing' of things. It would be great, for the chicks’ sake if the stores that sell them would post something visible to this effect when the chicks come in but I have never seen it done (at least in my area).<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Encourage the use of both hands for lifting and holding with one hand supporting the feet or bottom. </span></b><br />
Never pick chicks up by the head or neck try scooping them up with two hands. When returning the chick to the container encourage your kids to gently set them down on the shaving – even letting go of them a few inches above the container can be shock to a baby chick.<br />
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It is a fact of life that baby chicks, like baby humans just “go” when ever the need arises and that could be in your child’s hands. Chicks squirm when frightened and being picked up by any human is frightening. Chicks also have no depth perception at this newly hatched age and have no idea how far off the ground they are – a fall from even a child’s height on to a cement floor could kill a newly hatched chick or stress it beyond recovery (meaning even if its still alive when you put it back – it may die later).<br />
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Try encouraging your child to use one or two fingers to gentle pet baby chicks. Since young children are still developing fine motor skills and dexterity not only is this a good exercise but also it will help keep a wayward hand from inadvertently smashing a chick. <br />
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Baby chicks, like baby humans, need lots of sleep to grow. Allowing the chicks to sleep reduces stress and will let them grow up into health chickens. If a chick is falling asleep in your child’s hands it’s time to put the chick down, this can be caused from the chick being too tired, cold and/or from stress. Some chicks that are stressed from constant petting and handling do not thrive and will be more susceptible to injury and disease while some others do just fine.<br />
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Salmonella can be found in chicken poo, all baby chicks fall asleep in their poo even if their container is kept super clean. So even if your child didn’t get pooped on they should still wash their hands with warm water and soap after petting baby chicks and make sure hands are kept out of the mouth. A case of salmonella poisoning could be serious or even fatal to a young child. While very rare - it has happened.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>It is not healthy for chicks to paint them.</b> </span><br />
The colored chicks seen on TV and the Internet have actually been colored before they were ever hatched inside the egg with a special dye. Most consumer paints, dyes, and coloring that you have access to at the store are not healthy for baby chicks.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>A baby chick makes a bad Easter gift. </b></span><br />
While it may seem like a tempting Easter gift – a baby chick will grow up to be a big chicken. Chickens can live to be 20 years old if conditions are right. They make plenty of noise, especially if they are a rooster, require lots of food, care, do not get along with dogs and will be messy - very messy. Chickens that are bought as Easter presents and then given away, when they grow-up, usually end up in someone’s soup pot despite promises to the opposite. While this is not necessarily a bad thing I am fairly certain it is not what you or your child intended.<br />
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Stuffed toy chicks make MUCH better Easter presents than live chicks – that is unless you are embarking on a whole new hobby of chicken keeping, in which case once you have a brooder, feeder and waterer in place - by all means get as many as you would like.<br />
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Below is a Home Front Video that demonstrates "How to Process an Ox Tail" for all of you "do it yourselfers" that grow your own meat or buy it farm fresh. <b> Here is a TIP:</b> If you are not doing the butchering yourself y<span style="text-align: start;">ou have to specifically request that the butcher or farmer save these parts for you or they will be thrown out. Then you will most likely have to process them - like I am doing in the video - in order to eat it or freeze it.</span></div>
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The truth is humans have eaten and enjoyed these parts for thousands of years. Originally they were eaten out of necessity (because one had to eat it), but eventually folks learned how to make them taste pretty good. This is the start of a series which will go over how to process and cook many odd parts from a beef.<br />
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Some of these recipes I learned from my mom, some of them I found online and tweaked them until I liked them. Growing up, my family was a big believer in eating the "odd parts." Too often today when people think of beef all they think of is steaks and hamburger - maybe they think of roast if they grew up with a mom that cooked. THERE IS SO MUCH MORE to a beef than steaks and hamburger!
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Cooking from scratch is a big part of "Self-Reliance" and while I have no desire to turn this into a cooking blog, I do believe there are many important lessons in self-reliance to learn through cooking. After all - what good is it to store food and grow it if you have no idea how to cook it?! And if you are going to cook it, it might as well taste good so you will want to cook it again right? So I will be including recipes as much as possible (I inevitably get asked for them anyways).<br />
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Let's make a deal. Give these an honest try, once - in the process you will learn and prove to YOURSELF that you can do it. If you really don't like the taste of the dish - you don't have to eat it again, BUT at least you will know how to fix it if you have to and carry that confidence with you.<br />
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And as last resort, if you absolutely cannot eat Ox Tail, yet you are raising your own beef or buying it farm raised, save that part and strip the meat to give to your dog or maybe a neighbors dog. You could even make dog food out of it yourself, to learn how click here ---> <b><a href="http://stephaniedayle1.blogspot.com/2013/02/canning-homemade-dog-food-recipe-and.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">How to Make and Can Dog Food! </span></a></b>
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<li>1 can of kidney beans (or the equivalent of dry beans that have been soaked overnight - more beans don't hurt)</li>
<li>3-4 pounds oxtail</li>
<li>1 Large sweet onion, chopped</li>
<li>1 small bunch of chopped green onions</li>
<li>4 garlic cloves, smashed</li>
<li>1/2 tsp dried thyme</li>
<li>2 tablespoons red pepper flakes</li>
<li>4 teaspoons hot paprika (I did half smoked paprika and half reg, because I did not have hot)</li>
<li>2 bay leaves</li>
<li>2 tablespoons hot sauce (I used the hottest oriental chili sauce I could find)</li>
<li>4 tablespoons gravy master</li>
<li>6 cups beef broth (homemade is better!)</li>
<li>4 teaspoons tomato paste (or one small can if you don't make your own)</li>
<li>Salt to taste (I used a little less than 1 TBS)</li>
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In a crock-pot, add oxtails, onions, scallions, garlic, thyme, red pepper, paprika, bay leaf, hot sauce, and gravy master and marinate at least 4 hours or overnight in the refrigerator, stirring occasionally. I would also like to add that this also makes a GREAT <a href="http://stephaniedayle1.blogspot.com/2013/06/choosing-seasoning-and-caring-for-your.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">dutch oven</span></a> recipe - but let the ox tail marinate in a covered glass bowl overnight, then add it to your dutch oven prior to cooking.<br />
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Add enough water to just cover the oxtails and cook on low, for 8-10 hours. Every hour or so add some water or broth, alternating, as necessary, to keep oxtails some what covered with liquid.
With 2 hours of cooking time left, add the beans, tomato paste, and 2 more cups of beef broth if needed.<br />
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Simmer uncovered 2 hours, skimming fat off top and stirring occasionally. In the last 1/2 hour of cook time, season with salt. Serve with rice and enjoy.
Go ahead and pick up the chunks of ox tail with your fingers and pull the remaining meat off with your teeth, I won't tell anyone! Remember hand washing before eating is golden!
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</span> <span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">This is one of my most favorite money saving chicken tricks! I use wood pellets for bedding in my chicken coop. </span><br />
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Wood pellets absorb WAY more most than shavings or straw cutting down on smell and extending the time you can go between coop cleanings. The moisture absorption is handy in the winter because it keeps the humidity level down in your coop thus helping to prevent frostbite. </span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">While costs may differ depending on your location, in my area a bale of pine shaving now costs about $8 - where as a bag of pine wood pellets cost me $2.99. I can go through almost a whole winter on 3 bags of wood pellets. You don't need to use a lot of them because they expand so much. A bale of straw now also costs $6-$8. When I used straw only I would go through 2-3 bales a winter, depending on conditions. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">I have been using wood stove pellets for going on 5 years now with a flock that ranges from 50-25 yearly, and have not had A SINGLE problem with my hens eating the pellets. How do I know this? Every year I butcher a few of my oldest hens that aren't laying much anymore, the meat birds and any roosters that we are not keeping and while I am processing them I look for evidence. I have never found that they have consumed the wood pellets. Since I feed 'layer pellets' I make it a point to look and pay attention to what they are eating. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">However chickens have killed themselves before by eating grass, pine shaving and rocks. So I am sure somewhere some poor little hen has killed herself eating wood pellets too. If this concerns you, opt for a different kind of bedding - I am merely offering an idea.</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">Here is the long answer for inquiring minds: </span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Chickens love table scraps and can eat almost anything you eat and are a wonderful addition to a self-reliant, self sufficient lifestyle taking care of table and garden scraps throughout the year. I have seen literally hundreds of blog posts from people listing all kinds of off the wall things chickens supposedly can't eat. However, unless they are backed up (aka: linked to a creditable source </span><i style="font-weight: normal;">within the article</i><span style="font-weight: normal;">) I pay little attention. Here is a list of foods that chickens can eat that people have common questions about from the good people at the the </span><a href="http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/598481/what-cant-they-eat" style="font-weight: normal;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Back Yard Chicken Forum</span></a><span style="font-weight: normal;">.</span></span></h3>
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<li><b>Apples Raw and Applesauce:</b> (Apple seeds contain cyanide, but <i>not</i> in sufficient quantities to kill)</li>
<li><b>Asparagus Raw or cooked: </b> Okay to feed, but not a favorite. </li>
<li><b>Bananas:</b> High in potassium, a good treat (they usually will not eat the peel).</li>
<li><b>Beans:</b> Well-cooked only, never dry also, green beans are good.</li>
<li><b> Beets and beet greens:</b> Go for it. </li>
<li><b>Berries of all kinds:</b> A treat, especially strawberries. </li>
<li><b>Breads of all kinds: </b>Good use for stale bread or rolls - feed starches in moderation. </li>
<li><b>Broccoli & Cauliflower: </b>Good for chickens. </li>
<li><b> Cabbage & Brussels Sprouts:</b> Whole head or scraps.</li>
<li><b>Carrots Raw and Cooked: </b> They like carrot greens too. </li>
<li><b>Catfood: </b>Wet and dry - in moderation. </li>
<li><b> Cereal:</b> Avoid highly sugared cereal such as Cocopuffs, etc. </li>
<li><b>Cheese:</b> Including cottage cheese, feed in moderation, fatty but a good source of protein and calcium </li>
<li><b>Cooked Chicken:</b> They may like it and it won't kill them, but... ummm SO wrong. </li>
<li><b>Corn on Cob and Canned:</b> Raw and cooked. </li>
<li><b> Crickets, meal worms, maggots, earth worms, etc: </b>Can be bought as fishing bait, at pet-supply stores or you can raise them yourself. Great treats, provides protein and its fun to watch the chickens catch them. </li>
<li><b>Cucumbers: </b>Let mature for yummy seeds and flesh, peels are good too.</li>
<li><b>Eggs:</b> Hard cooked and scrambled are a good source of protein, and a favorite treat. Feed cooked eggs only because you don't want your chickens to start eating their own raw eggs. </li>
<li><b>Eggplant:</b> Fruit ok in moderation, avoid peels. Eggplants are in the nightshade family and contain <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solanine" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Solanine.</span></a> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<li><b> Fish / Seafood: </b>Cooked flesh only. Shells and peelings are high in calcium and beneficial. </li>
<li><b>Flowers: </b> Make sure they haven't been treated with pesticides, such as florist flowers might be. Marigolds, nasturtiums, pansies, etc... are all beneficial. </li>
<li><b>Fruit:</b> Pears, peaches, cherries, apples </li>
<li><b>Grains:</b> Bulgar, flax, niger, wheat-berries, etc. </li>
<li><b> Grapes:</b> Seedless. Great fun - the cause of many entertaining "chicken keep away"games. </li>
<li><b>Grits:</b> Cooked "leftovers" only. </li>
<li><b>Lawn Clippings:</b> Only if it's not fertilized and not treated with chemicals or pesticides. </li>
<li><b>Lettuce / Kale: </b>Any leafy greens, spinach collards, chickweed included. A big treat, depending on how much other greenery they have access to.</li>
<li><b>Meat scraps of any kind:</b> Not too fatty. In moderation, a good source of protein </li>
<li><b>Melon: </b> Cantaloupe, etc...both seeds and flesh are good chicken treats. </li>
<li><b>Milk:</b> Plain, raw or slightly sour - good for chickens and they love it.</li>
<li><b>Oatmeal Raw or cooked: </b> Cooked makes a nice warm treat on a cold winter day - high in protein.</li>
<li><b>Pasta / Macaroni: </b> Cooked spaghetti, etc, a favorite next to live bugs, but does not contain much nutrition. </li>
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<li><b> Peppers:</b> Don't really like them but won't hurt them. </li>
<li><b> Pomegranates: </b> Raw, seeds are a big treat. </li>
<li><b> Popcorn:</b> Popped, no butter, no salt. Seeds, just like any other dried corn, will be fairly indigestible unless you grind it a bit. </li>
<li><b>Potatoes / Sweet Potatoes / Yams:</b> Cooked - avoid green parts of peels! Starchy, not much nutrition.</li>
<li><b>Pumpkins / Winter Squash:</b> Raw or cooked. Both seeds and flesh are a nutritious treat. </li>
<li><b>Raisins:</b> Go for it. </li>
<li><b>Rice:</b> Cooked only, pilaf mixes are okay too, plain white rice has very little nutrition. </li>
<li><b>Sprouts:</b> Wheat and oat sprouts are great! Good for greens in mid-winter. </li>
<li><b>Summer Squash:</b> Yellow squash and zucchini, yellow squash not a huge favorite, but okay to feed.</li>
<li><b>Sunflower Seeds: </b> Sunflower seeds with the shell still on is fine to feed, as well as with the shell off. A good treat, helps hens lay eggs and grow healthy feathers. </li>
<li><b>Tomatos: </b> Raw and or cooked. Avoid feeding the plants (again nightshade family - <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solanine" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Solanine</span></a>).</span></li>
<li><b>Turnips: </b>Cooked. Not a huge favorite but not harmful. </li>
<li><b>Watermelon:</b> Served cold, it can keep chickens cool and hydrated during hot summers. Seeds and flesh are both okay to feed. They will peck a rind clean then add rind to compost pile.</li>
<li><b>Yogurt Plain or Flavored:</b> A big favorite and good for their digestive systems. Plain is better and has less sugar than flavored yogurt.</li>
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<b>Again, meat is OK.</b> Chickens are omnivores and in the wild they will eat mice, snakes, frogs, lizards and dead carcasses (like eagles, vultures, hawks and ravens do). Much to my amazement I have seen feral chickens in Hawaii (visited with my folk once when I was young) stand around and eat road kill. Nasty huh? It does not make them peck at each other, they will not pick up disease in that manner. Too many chickens in a small area makes them peck at each other.<br />
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<b>Some people say "No Onions": </b>Really? They point to this article <a href="http://www.vet.k-state.edu/features/VetQuarterly/KVQspr05.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">(http://www.vet.k-state.edu/features/VetQuarterly/KVQspr05.pdf)</span> </a>and claim they cause heinz anemia. NO where in that article does it say onions are bad for poultry, chickens or birds. Onions are only a danger to livestock and dogs if they are eaten in very large amounts - if you were to apply this to chickens, onions would also be fine in small amounts. My chickens eat small amounts of onions and onion peel frequently - they don't taint the flavor of the eggs, my flock is super healthy, and I have only had one hen die on me since I have been keeping chickens as an adult. You decide.<br />
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<b>Some people say no Ham</b> - because of the salt. I say ham is ok in very small amounts.<br />
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<b>Some people say asparagus will taint the flavor of the eggs. </b>I have fed literally pounds and pounds of asparagus to them each spring and have NEVER noticed even a slight difference.<br />
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<span style="color: #660000;"> <b><u><span style="font-size: large;">Foods to AVOID FEEDING Chickens:</span></u></b></span><br />
also from BYC Forum (see link above), additional linked information provided by me - <i>click on the "blue links" to see the source of the information and learn for yourself.</i><br />
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<li><b><span style="color: red;">Raw green potatoes and green potato peels:</span></b> Toxic substance called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solanine" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Solanine</span></a>. While not fatal they aren't "good" for chickens. Many people feed green potato peels in small amounts. Cooked potatoes that had green peels should be fine, cooking the potatoes reduces toxicity. </li>
<li><b><span style="color: red;">Rhubarb leaves:</span></b> are poisonous to almost everything to some extent with <span style="color: blue;"> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhubarb" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">oxalic acid</span></a></span>, the fruit stalks contain low levels of the toxin but in small amounts should be fine. While muching on a few leaves may not kill them, it's certainly not good for them. The effects of oxalic acid are <i>very</i> well documented. </li>
<li><b><span style="color: red;">Anything super salty:</span></b> Too much salt can overload their little kidneys - remember in moderation.</li>
<li><b><span style="color: red;"> Citrus Peels:</span></b> Supposedly they interfere with calcium absorption, I have not seen a verifiable source to back this up and debated even listing it -- but it is a mute point as they really won't eat them anyways.</li>
<li><span style="color: red;"> </span><b><span style="color: red;">Dried or Undercooked Beans:</span> </b>Contains a poison called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemagglutinin" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Hemagglutinin</span></a> which is toxic to birds. Hemegglutinin is found in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lectin" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Lectin</span></a> - which is common in legumes (specially soybeans and kidney beans). Cooking the beans reduces the the toxicity. </li>
<li><b><span style="color: red;">Avocado Skin and Pit:</span></b> Low levels of a toxin called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persin" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Persin</span></a>. They are NOT fatal - how do I know? Cause before I learned this I feed my chickens avocado all the time and saw no ill effects. Like most of the food on this list your chickens would have to eat a lot of it to kill them. </li>
<li><b><span style="color: red;">Candy, Chocolate, Sugar:</span> </b> Again while not fatal, it's bad for their systems (as most processed foods are to people), and chocolate can be poisonous to most pets.</li>
<li><b><span style="color: red;">Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs:</span></b> Sorry, someone had to say it - no partying with the chickens their systems can't clear the toxins. UPDATE: On a side note I was recently supplied with some information on hemp seed. It appears to be very beneficial for birds as feed - <a href="http://www.nuts.com/cookingbaking/seeds/hemp/in-shell.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">click here to learn more.</span></a></li>
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If you want, you can also check out this popular list of<b><a href="http://www.poultryhelp.com/toxicplants.html" target="_blank"> <span style="color: blue;">Toxic Plants</span></a> by PoultryHelp.com</b>....<span style="font-weight: normal;">but, if you look at the very bottom of the page you will see that the list is pulled from a "reptile book" not a chicken or poultry book. While they are similar creatures they are not the same.</span><br />
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So here's the deal, I understand wanting to feed your chickens anything to prevent waste but if you want chickens to be a part of a <i>"self-reliant, homegrown, organic, lifestyle"</i> and to provide you with nice healthy eggs; does feeding them crap just because "it hasn't hurt or killed them yet" sound like good idea??? No - it doesn't. Here is what a responsible livestock or pet owner does when they find out that something is bad for the animals under their care: They STOP feeding it to them.</span></b></blockquote>
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<b>Some History on My Background with Poultry. </b><i> </i><br />
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<i>When I write articles about chicken keeping it's from my personal background and experience with keeping poultry and of course new information that I have acquired and am still acquiring by reading books, talking to vets and other chicken keepers. My personal background is this - I keep chickens myself and have for many years, I learned from my dad. Growing up we raised chickens, turkeys, chukars, quail and many different breeds of pheasants (these birds were mostly for meat and wild release). We had hundreds of birds and also competed with them in 4-H. My Dad learned from his mom. Growing up she always kept a small flock of birds, I am not sure where my Grandma on that side of the family learned as her parents came over from Norway. </i><br />
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<i>I am not a suburbanite transplant to the rural that is just learning how to keep chickens while I blog. I don't say this in a spiteful or snotty way at ALL. I think that is a wonderful thing to get out of the city and learn rural life, and writing about it as you learn is exceedingly helpful to others who are also learning. However - it is also good to learn from and publish information based on years of experience, because as you are gaining experience you may find that some of the things you once believed were incorrect. You may also find that something else works better than what you were originally doing. The information I offer is tempered by that background and experience. </i><br />
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<i><span style="color: red;">Please note: there are many lists of foods that chickens can and can't eat on the internet. My sources are linked within the article for credit, any other similarities are merely a coincidence. </span></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 18px; text-indent: 0px;">The best way to protect your household from the effects of a disaster is to be prepared. If you own pets you are responsible to prepare for them as well. Many disasters could cut off your access to more pet food from the store. A prolonged power outage could keep the stores closed, or they may already be sold out. Storing some extra food for pets is essential for their health and well-being.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 18px; text-indent: 0px;">As a pet and livestock owner I have researched and tested various ways to store pet food. The easiest approach is to store what your dog or cat currently eats, that way you can keep the food in rotation and nothing is ever wasted. Start by building up a three-month supply of pet food and work your way up from there. </span><em style="font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 18px; text-indent: 0px;">Here are some recommendations and options for storing emergency pet food.</em></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: underline;">Store Dry Kibble in the Bag</span> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003P9XFWS/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B003P9XFWS&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; color: #336699; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;"><img alt="" border="0" class="alignright" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=B003P9XFWS&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=beingst-20" height="160" style="border: 0px; clear: right; float: right; height: auto; margin: 7px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" width="160" /></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=beingst-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B003P9XFWS" height="1" style="border: none !important; height: auto; margin: 0px !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" width="1" /></b><br />
I work right next to a Purina Mill, and have had several in-depth conversations with the employees in packaging on how to best store dry kibble. Surprisingly, they all say the best way you can store dry kibble is right in the bag. Here is <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.dogfoodscoop.com/pet-food-storage.html" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; color: #336699; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">another article (click here) </span></a></span></span>which helps to explain the science behind dry pet food storage. If you look on the back or bottom of a dry food bag you will find a ‘Best Buy Date’ or “Expiration Date”, this date could be several years out. ‘Natural’ pet food formulas tend to not last as long due to their lack of preservatives. The date on the back of the food bag means that the manufacturer will not guarantee optimum freshness and nutritional quality past that date. It’s doesn’t mean that it will suddenly rot and go bad after that date. It usually indicates that nutritional value could be lost after that point in time, therefore the goal is to use the pet food by then.</div>
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<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Containers:</strong></span> Pet food manufactures want their product to keep as is stated on the bag or they get in trouble. So they provide you with one of the best containers for it. The bag keeps the food dry, dark and even allows it to breathe slightly. This is important because even dry pet food contains moisture in the form of fats and oils; it is for this reason that repackaging dry pet food in Mylar or other vacuum sealed bags for long-term storage is not recommended. Few containers and/or storage methods are appropriate for processed food which contains fat and oils. The wrong storage container could cause a greasy film to build up on the container’s sides that will go rancid, cause the food to be distasteful and hasten food spoilage of any new food you add to the container. Even if you seal the dry food up in bags with oxygen absorbers and silica packets the fat and oils in dry kibble will still go rancid. </div>
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Keeping dry pet food sealed up in the bag it comes in, is the best way to preserve it. If further protection is needed it is recommended that you place the entire unopened bag into another container like preferably a <span style="color: blue;"><strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000RNDR3W/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000RNDR3W&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; color: #336699; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">metal bin</span></a></strong></span>, or an<span style="color: blue;"> <strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004L5UIRU/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B004L5UIRU&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; color: #336699; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">airtight plastic</span></a></strong></span> container. As soon as you open a bag of <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.dogfoodscoop.com/pet-food-containers.html" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; color: #336699; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">dry pet food oxidation starts</span></a></span></span> to occur at a rapid pace, once opened, most commercial pet food will last less than six months so it’s best to use it in that time.</div>
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The best option for storing dry kibble is to build up a supply and rotate it out for use before exceeding the manufacturers date on the bag. Use the oldest bag first and purchase new bags just like normal to replace them, rotate the older bags to the front. Keep an eye on the food’s appearance and smell, if the kibble goes bad before the date on the bag; return the bag to the manufacturer or place of purchase. Keep dry kibble in a dark, dry area protected from extreme temperature swings.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: navy; text-decoration: underline;"><b>Store Canned Pet Food</b></span> </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002CJAOT4/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B002CJAOT4&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; color: #336699; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;"><img alt="" border="0" class="alignright" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=B002CJAOT4&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=beingst-20" height="113" style="border: 0px; clear: right; float: right; height: auto; margin: 7px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" width="160" /></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=beingst-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B002CJAOT4" height="1" style="border: none !important; height: auto; margin: 0px !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" width="1" /><br />
Just like the date on the dry food bag, the date canned pet food means the manufacturer will only guarantee the nutritional quality listed up to that point in time. Canned pet food can last anywhere from 2-5 years according to most manufacturers. Some people claim it should be nutritionally valid for up to 10 years.</div>
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A year’s supply of canned pet food is fairly inexpensive to acquire, will last longer and takes up less space than dry kibble. Rotate the supply by using the oldest food first and putting the new stuff in the back. Once a supply has been acquired continu<span id="goog_1469072141"></span><span id="goog_1469072142"></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/"></a>e using and purchasing pet food like usual, this way you are continuously renewing your supply. If a disaster were to strike on any given day cutting off the flow of new food, there would be still a year’s worth of stored pet food left to use. Keep canned pet food in a dark cool area protected from extreme temperature swings.</div>
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<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 16px;">Make Your Own Pet Food</span></b></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"> </span><br />
There are many different recipes for homemade dog and cat food available on the internet. After all, store-bought pet food didn’t appear on the market until the 1930s so up to that point in time everyone just made their own pet food or fed their pets whatever they ate. In fact, o<span style="font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">ne of the biggest trends in pet health today is organic raw diets, resulting in pet owners around the world moving away from store bought food.</span></div>
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One of the ways you can preserve homemade pet food is by canning it. While the resulting jar of food will be cooked and no longer raw it is still FAR healthier than it's store bought counter parts. Homemade pet food lacks many of the unhealthy additives and preservatives that most commercial pet food contains. <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span style="color: blue;"> </span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span style="outline: none; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://stephaniedayle1.blogspot.com/2013/02/canning-homemade-dog-food-recipe-and.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Click here for a Homemade Dog Food</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> recipe</span></span><br /><a href="http://pets.webmd.com/cats/guide/homemade-cat-food-and-raw-cat-food?page=2" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out initial; color: #336699; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out initial;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Click here for a Homemade Cat Food recipe from PetMD</span></a></strong></span></div>
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The only drawback to canning pet food is that the canning recipes have not been scientifically tested for safety, so there is a greater margin of risk. This is an option I would only recommend to someone who has had experience with canning and knows how to mitigate the risks involved with using an untested canning recipe. The running estimate for the self-life of home canned pet food is 10 years.</div>
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Another “homemade” option is just to stock extra amounts of the ingredients used to make their food. This usually consists of rice, meat and some veggies, all these items are easy to add to long-term storage in a house or ‘bug out location’. Just make sure there is enough food stored for both humans and animals.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">Another option you may not hear about real often is freeze-dried pet food this would also be an option for Raw Diet fans. It is usually formulated with high quality 'raw' food, and then freeze-dried for convenience and longer storage times. Freeze-dried pet food is expensive just like human freeze-dried food is, but it could be a viable lightweight, long-term storage option for emergency pet food. Below I have linked to a few types of freeze-dried pet food, click on the blue text to see the product. I currently use freeze-dried dog food while camping with my own dogs so I can tell you first hand that it’s easy to prepare and they love every bite.</span></div>
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Most of the freeze-dried pet food products available on the market would need to be repackaged in <span style="color: #993300;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003X87CFW/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B003X87CFW&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; color: #336699; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;"><span style="color: blue;">Mylar</span></a></span> </span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">as the plastic packages it comes in are not meant for long-term storage. </span></span>Adding some <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0028AG8RO/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0028AG8RO&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; color: #336699; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">oxygen absorbers</span></a></span> and <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0038N30OY/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0038N30OY&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; color: #336699; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">silica packets</span></a></span> to the mix would also be a good precaution. Unlike dry kibble, freeze-dried pet food is completely suitable for this storage method. The manufacturers were probably not thinking that preppers would stash their products away for years at a time, so repackaging is necessary.<br />
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While raw diets can be a challenge to prep for there are a couple of options available. Not prepping for your pet because they are on a raw diet and it is too expensive or bulky is irresponsible. I am pretty sure store bought or cooked food would be more healthy for your pet than starvation. </div>
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<em style="font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">As the owner of three very large dogs I combine several of the above options for our pet food storage because I like having a plan B, C, and sometimes D. <em>Doing what works best for your situation and storage space while making sure your pets are taken care of is key. <em>Hopefully this information makes setting aside and storing extra food for pets a little more doable and less confusing.</em></em></em></div>
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<b>Tired of hauling water to your chickens twice a day because it's frozen yet? Here are some cost saving ideas!</b><br />
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This is kind of a memory dump for me. Everything I have tried and/or seen - gathered up in one spot. Please look closely into the safety and costs involved in whatever heater you decided to use. Remember just because a group of people think that a certain heater is fantastic on the internet doesn't mean it will work OR be safe for your situation.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Cookie Tin Water Heater</b></span><br />
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I have seen the Christmas cookie tin heater idea, but something about it just doesn't seem safe to me. I haven't tried it so I can't say for sure and alot of people have tried it with no issues so who knows? Just my opinion and you know that they say about opinions. These have been floating around the internet since 2006 and there are many posts on them. The nice thing about this approach is that it is priced out fairly inexpensively at $10 (although those materials, drill bit included, would run me just under $20 new at the hardware store, less if I bought a lamp at a yard sale). Not all lamp assembly kits are equal though so if you try this, make sure what you have will work with your drill bit size and cookie tin. Also if I were to try this, I would use the lowest wattage bulb I could get away with using to increase safety and save money on power.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.hensintheyard.com/cookie-tin-water-heater-for-chickens/" target="_blank">Click here to see the visit "Hens in the Yard" to see their set-up, she has some good ideas to increase safety and insulate.</a></span></b></span></span><br />
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I have also seen the cinder block idea and I just don't think that would be real effective as cinder blocks don't conduct heat real well, again my opinion....<br />
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<a href="http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/mareed2ks-chicken-coop" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Click Here to see this post on Backyard Chickens</span></a></h4>
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I have neighbor that uses a clay pot with a light bulb (like the one videoed below), and swears by it. I think this is a tad safer (but can't tell you for sure because I have not made one). But if something were to happen and a fire were to start inside the clay pot it would be very short lived and contained.<br />
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While this isn't a heater - for any of these DYI ideas to be economical you would want them to be on a thermostat. This is easily done by using a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006U2HD2/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0006U2HD2&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">thermostatically controlled outlet</span></a> (pictured below).There are several models on the market you can find them at farm supply stores, hardware stores, and on Amazon. This would cause the light/heater to come on when the temperature drops to the point where water freezes and then kicks itself back off when the temperature outside warms up above freezing. This would prevent the light/heater from just running and running and running your electric bill up. What's a couple bucks to your bill each month? Well a lot for us.<br />
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That being said - for some of these alternative DYI heater ideas by the time you add everything up (and purchase a thermostatically controlled outlet plug) they are coming in just under $30. I can find the regular<span style="color: blue;"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000HHQDPM/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000HHQDPM&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><b>metal base heaters</b></span></a></span> for chickens at my farm supply store, or feed store at least once or twice a year on sale for $30 (I find that price quite affordable, but you have to watch for the sale). They are UL listed (for safety). This is what we rely on the most, the oldest one I have came from my folks, we used it when I was a kid, it still works, it must be 30 years old.<br />
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They work well and are low maintenance, the temperature dropped down to -8 degrees this weekend and my 5 gallon waterer was completely thawed the whole time, this is because they can ramp up to 150 watts to keep your waterer thawed if need be. No running outside to change out the light bulb in a cookie tin to a 60 or 100 watts light bulb. When you work full time <i>and</i> live a self-reliant lifestyle <u>time is a big deal</u> - I use a heating solution that is designed for it's purpose, that works without me tinkering with it or constantly checking on it.
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There is the old stand by of the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0068MSO70/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0068MSO70&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">plug-in chicken waterer</span></a>. I am not a huge fan of these because my parents tried them when I was kid and they quit working on us. I thought it was a rather expensive piece of equipment to just up and stop working on you (of course in the middle of a deep freeze) plus the biggest ones I have seen are 3 gallons, we need a 5 gallon waterer as we don't have room for two separate heated waterers. So it's just something I choose not to spend my money on. I am sure there are people out there who use them and have had no problems with them. Again you can find these and Farm Supply Stores, Feed Stores and on Amazon.
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Yep, I found it on pinterest! This looks like one of the best ideas I've seen yet. It using half the wattage of the Cookie Tin Water Heater idea, is safer, cheaper AND it will last forever - no changing light bulbs. This is an idea I would actually try - say goodbye to cookie tins. Check out this wonder link below! </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Written and lived by Stephanie Dayle - this is an article that I originally wrote over at the <a href="http://americanpreppersnetwork.com/2013/03/cooking-on-a-wood-stove.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">American Preppers Network published March 2013</span></a> - I have now have brought it over to my own site.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: large;"><b>Wood stove cooking is a great self-reliant skill to learn so if the power ever goes out you can seamlessly transition to it. Wood stove cooking saves money on power, and makes some of the most wonderful home cooked meals!</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #082541; font-family: Oswald, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Wood stove cooking is something we did when I was a kid. I grew up 15 miles outside of a small rural town, the power lines were old, pre-World War II, I was told. The power would go out during storms in the winter and during storms in the summer, sometimes for seemingly no reason at all. The longest outage I can recall was over two weeks, but it was never an 'emergency,' and life went on. This may sound backwards to some people, but to us it was normal. During these times I helped my mother cook soups, stews, casseroles, French toast and pancakes all on our wood stove.</span><br />
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As an adult living in a rural area, it was really important to us that we have wood heat. It's an ideal source of back-up heat and it provides an element of self-reliance that was a must for us. Since few newer homes come with wood heat anymore it was necessary to install a wood stove when we purchased our property. </div>
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I happen to prefer the performance and versatility of a standalone wood stove (see picture on left) and they are usually very easy to cook on so that is what we got, but you can cook on some insert wood stoves too (an insert wood stove is different from a fireplace, see photo on the right). My mother did all her cooking during power outages on the top of an insert wood stove; you just need a somewhat wide flat surface on top.<br />
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Start with some cast iron cookware. I recommend everyone having a couple of <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006JSUB/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00006JSUB&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #082541; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">cast iron frying pans</span></a></strong></span></span> and at least one <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006JSUF/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00006JSUF&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #082541; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">flat bottom dutch oven</span></a></strong></span></span> (also known as a kitchen oven -<a href="http://stephaniedayle1.blogspot.com/2013/06/choosing-seasoning-and-caring-for-your.html" target="_blank"> <span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: blue;">click here for an article on choosing and seasoning a dutch oven</span></span></a>). Cast iron has a better heat tolerance and is kinder on heat distribution than other cookware, but if stainless is all you have you can cook with stainless steel frying pans and pots on your wood stove too. Another option is enamel cookware. Enamel cookware has a good heat tolerance, a great reputation for easy campfire cooking and cleaning. The only cookware I would avoid completely would be thin aluminum pans or Teflon. A <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00063RXKQ/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00063RXKQ&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #082541; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">trivet</span></a></strong> </span></span>is a great tool to have to help regulate the cooking temperatures, however in a pinch, a stone tile can also be used for this purpose. <span style="color: #333333;">Trivets are also</span> used inside the Dutch oven to keep the food from baking to the bottom of the oven.<br />
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We have a two-step Englander free-standing wood stove. This gives me two different temperature surfaces. The top surface works better for slower cooking and the bottom surface works better for things that require more heat such as frying, boiling water, or cooking popcorn. It is a very large wood stove rated to heat 3200 square feet, it often drives us to open windows in the in the middle of the winter. As you can see in the picture we have outfitted the flue with a <span style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000IZTA4O/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000IZTA4O&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #082541; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">magnetic temperature gauge</span></a></strong></span>, now this not as handy as an oven thermometer, but it's better than nothing and requires no electricity. It tells me what the temperature on the outside of the pipe is.<br />
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Here is an easy recipe to try on your wood stove. Other easy things you can try on a wood stove include stews, beans, pancakes, French toast, soups, and popping popcorn!</div>
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Take a beef roast out of the freezer the day before you actually want to cook the roast and allow it to thaw. Do not thaw it in the microwave.</div>
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An hour before cooking apply the dry rub (spices) to the entire surface area of the roast, then let it rest prior to cooking. Brown the roast with a<span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006JSUB/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00006JSUB&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #082541; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"> large cast iron skillet</span></a></span> on the stove top using a tablespoon or two of rendered lard, tallow, or your favorite cooking oil. This will improve flavor and seal in the juices. Grease will splatter on your stove; this will not hurt your stove, it is not the end of the world, and may burn off later. It gives your stove character.</div>
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Place the beef roast in your oven sitting in those liquids on top of the trivet. Top the roast with chunks of raw bacon. Add the Dutch oven lid and closely monitor how the roast begins to cook. If it seems a little too hot add a <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00063RXKQ/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00063RXKQ&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #082541; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">trivet</span></a></span> or stone tile under the Dutch oven, if it's too cold remove the stone tile or <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00063RXKQ/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00063RXKQ&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #082541; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">trivet</span></a></span></span>,</strong> if it is still too cold, move the oven to the lower cooking surface if you have one.</div>
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Only after all the easy options have been exhausted do you tinker with the stove, closing the dampers down to lower the temperature output and opening them up to increase the temperature output. Remember wood stoves are not instant so if you open the dampers up to increase the cooking temperature, it will take some time for the temperature to actually go up, so do it gradually.</div>
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Slow cook the beef roast on the stove for 6-8 hours. Think 'crock-pot' cooking. Occasionally rotate your Dutch oven to insure even cooking, try to avoid removing the lid too much. Using a meat thermometer check the temperature of the roast before declaring it done, it should read between 150-160 degrees F. Remove the roast and put it on a plate for serving.</div>
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Serve your wood stove beef roast with some homemade mashed potatoes, canned peas (which you can also cook on your wood stove) and maybe the rest of that beer! Enjoy! If you are wondering where you can get that<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"> <strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000MXH472/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000MXH472&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #082541; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">cast iron tea kettle (click here</span></a>)</strong></span></span>, we use it as a humidifier while the stove is going during the winter.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A few years back, I saw this segment of “Good Eats” (a Food Channel show) on jerky. I quickly copied his recipe and logged it in my mind. Someone asked me a question on jerky last month that made me go searching for this video. When I found it and watched it again, I was amazed. They made a ‘preparedness food’ episode and didn’t even know it! I wrote and article about it on American Preppers Network and now I am bringing a version of it here to my own blog.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This will show you exactly how to make your own jerky for storage without a fancy dehydrator or smoker out of a household box fan and some furnace filters (unused of course). It will EVEN show you how to make your own 'homemade liquid smoke'! All you need is some spare time to give the video a look, the guy hosting (Alton Brown) is a goofball but his information is good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">For grins I tried it (of COURSE I tried it) and it turned out great. A little on the crunchy fibrous side but good, I figure if meat is like veggies the snap factor indicates near complete dehydration – and appropriateness for longer term storage. Alton Brown from “Good Eats” on this episode claims it will last at least 4 years in a jar. Watch and enjoy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Here is part one of the jerky episode.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">The full episode is now only available to view online if purchase it - $1.99 </span></span><span style="outline: none;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1uhQ5O9Cug" style="outline: none; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Good Eats - Jerky"><span style="color: blue;">by clicking here</span></a><u>.</u> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">I am not making any money by linking to it and am highly unimpressed with Food Network's decision to charge for a 2005 educational video that up until two weeks ago was </span></span><span style="line-height: 18px;">available</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"> completely for free on youtube. But if you do want to see the whole episode I wanted to provide the means. I suppose it's cheaper than a DVD.</span></span></span></div>
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2/3 cup soy sauce<br />
1 tablespoon honey<br />
2 teaspoons freshly ground black pepper<br />
2 teaspoons onion powder<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">What you will see in the second half of that Good Eats Episode is how Alton Brown dehydrates his marinated jerky using some clean furnace filters set on top of a simple box fan. Evenly distribute the strips of meat onto 3 of the air filters, laying them in the grooves and then stacking the filters on top of one another. Top these with 1 empty filter. Next, lay the box fan on its side and lay the filters on top of it. Strap the filters to the fan with 2 bungee cords. Stand the fan upright, plug in and set to medium. Allow the meat dry for 8 to 12 hours.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">If you don’t want pay to watch the episode and would like more detail on this technique </span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/beef-jerky-recipe/index.html" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; color: #336699; outline: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;" target="_blank" title="Good Eats Beef Jerky"><span style="color: blue;">click here</span></a></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">. When asked recently during a Q&A session at a public speaking engagement if the jerk recipe and technique was safe he said that it was and otherwise he would not have been allowed by his lawyers or by Food Network to produce it - but he does </span></span><span style="line-height: 18px;">acknowledge it is not "USDA approved." </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">At the very end of the episode he makes a jerky soup / tomato sauce, which would make the perfect food storage recipe.</span></div>
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<strong style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">A word on safety:</strong><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;"> According to the USDA, the risk in dehydrating meat without first cooking it to a safe temperature is that the appliance (the box fan) will not heat the meat to 160 °F — the temperature at which bacteria are destroyed in beef —before it dries. If the bacteria survives the salty acidic marinade, IF these surviving bacteria are pathogenic (BIG IF), they can cause food borne illness to those consuming the jerky. In all fairness, many consumer model food dehydrators will only heat homemade jerky up to 130-140°F while drying, which is not technically adequate heat for killing all bacteria either. If you want to make jerky at home, you should at least review </span><strong style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.fsis.usda.gov/Factsheets/Jerky_and_Food_Safety/index.asp" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; color: #336699; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;"><span style="color: blue;">USDAs guidelines to making homemade jerky</span></a></span></strong><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;"> before you begin.</span><br />
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<strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Other Food Borne Illnesses Risks we Take:</span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There are also other special considerations to take when making homemade jerky from venison or other wild game. Wild game meat is not regulated by the USDA prior to processing. Venison can also, if not killed or handled properly <em>(this is usually in direct proportion to the hunters skill and knowledge)</em>, be contaminated with fecal bacteria. While fresh beef is usually rapidly chilled and/or frozen, deer carcasses are typically held at ambient temperatures (whatever the temperature is outside at the time of the kill and/or aging), potentially allowing bacteria multiplication. </span></div>
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<em><strong><span style="font-family: inherit;">So what type of “insurance” do you require for your homemade jerky adventures? It really is up to you</span><span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">.</span></strong></em></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00029307154132762913noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7051609727272394086.post-19583348726443783322013-10-30T07:30:00.000-07:002013-10-30T07:30:00.870-07:00Scary but True Tales from the Rural - One Scary Fall Ride<span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">One Scary Fall Ride</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">When I still lived at home and my brother still rode horses, we went out for a ride one nice cool fall day. We decided to follow the power line trail back behind the barn to the top of the ridge. You can do that a lot up where I grew up because, AVISTA (the local Power Lord), hates running their butts out in the middle of the dang woods to fix the power lines every time the wind blows, so they have created super wide and clear paths on which to run power lines - no kidding, you can drive a truck and/or a large 4-Wheeler up most of them - I know, because I have done it.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">I was on my black 4-H gelding, Nightfire, and my brother was on his bay 4-H gelding, Peppy. I had to be around 14 years old making my brother 12. We warmed up, and practiced our horsemanship skills a bit at home, and then headed out. The area surrounding my family's house is heavily wooded with pines in every direction. We liked the woods behind the barn because it was close and yet completely out of sight from our parents. We both had ridden this trail before, and we had built numerous forts in these woods on the flat before the ridge so we were no stranger to that part of the woods.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Nightfire and kiddo Stephanie at a competition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo by Stephanie Dayle (c) 2013</span></div>
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Trebuchet MS, Trebuchet, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">The power line trail cuts through the woods on the flat and then immediately heads up the ridge (</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 19px;">my folk's place kind of sits on the side of a mountain ridge near its base so if you are back behind the house at all you have to go up, if you are in front you are going downhill just a little ways to the valley floor) </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">which is why we both grabbed breast collars for the horses while tacking up. We trotted to base of the ridge then started up it. I noticed a deer leg laying in the middle of the trail a hundred or so yards back from the barn. My brother and I blamed the coyotes </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Trebuchet MS, Trebuchet, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><i>(this is really not an uncommon sight up here in the southern Selkirk mountains coyotes love road kill and left overs from hunters so they pack the bones and parts around every where)</i></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Part way up the going gets steep and the horses have to pick and choose their footing, so we walk and let them choose the best path with only a little guidance from us. Since it was towards the end of the day when we left I knew we had only a good hour or so worth of light. By the time we hit the half-way point where it flattens out some more day</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">light was already starting to dim</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">The horses were breathing heavily so we stopped for a minute to let them catch their breath. I loved climbing with the horses, the views, the fresh air, all of it really. I think the horses did too they were always in a good mood out on the trail; Peppy and Nightfire were both seasoned pros at trail rides, thanks to hundreds of miles their young owners put on them. On this day though Peppy was acting nervous - he creep walks when he was nervous, never standing still but taking teeny tiny steps in a forward direction. Nightfire was also acting a tad nervous - his habit was to randomly and repeatedly toss his head in the air slowly driving his own mad. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Nightfire was always a bit of a chicken heart so I paid little attention to his nervousness. We were thick in the woods and what light was left in the sky had a hard time penetrating the trees and reaching the forest floor - it would be just like Nightfire to scare the crap out of himself so he could go back to the barn sooner. I figured Peppy was just feeding off of my own gelding. I noticed chunk of deer fur off to the side of the trail and pointed it out. My brother shook his head, "Those darn things drag shit around everywhere..."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">When we came back together to both of the horses were starting to blow - something I seen horses do when they catch a really alarming scent or I have also seen them to do it while running around in play. I asked my brother if we should turn around, but he thought they were just picking up on some deer sent that was most likely on the trail directly ahead of us. So we continued on up. The horses were now wide eyed - with ears perked forward and tense - it was getting worse the further up we went. We were so deaf to what they were trying to tell us.</span><br /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Trebuchet MS, Trebuchet, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">After a little further up the trail my brother agreed that we would to go up just a little further then turn around. He thought if the boys smelled something dangerous maybe we ought to listen to them and go home. Something was starting to creep me out too - it felt as though we were being stalked, not watched, but stalked. I have very rarely felt like it ever, but its a different feeling and it triggers a primeval mind-set. You stop thinking about everything - you think of only going home, getting off the mountain, not of safety or how pretty things are. You are tense and tight during such time and I swear I can hear and see 10 times better than when I am at home safe and secure and relaxed. </span></span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /><br />
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<br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">There one last bolder in the way but it left enough room for us both to use the same direction to get around it - and when we hiked the horses up and around it when came upon a grizzle sight. A deer kill, about 2 or 3 days old it looked. It had been partially eaten, there was lots of fur around - it was miss a front leg. In the damp dirt around the front of the opened gut there were a maze of Mountain Lion prints clear as day. We both looked down and then looked at each other now 100% sure of what was spooking the horses. "Let's get out of here." I said. We pivoted both horses around and started walking down the mountain as quickly as I thought we could. Both horses were pulling at the reins and wanting to go faster, but due the steep grade of the mountain we were still forced at a fairly slow pace.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /><br />
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<br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">The next thing I recall is a large branch snapping to my left. The horses had been compressed like metal springs waiting to be sprung and that branch was the trigger they needed to spring. I was so startled that I let Nightfire go - as I saw my brother do with his horse as well. Both horses half-ran and jumped down the mountain </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 19px;">(now this was a steep trail one, I had previously judged only to fit for walking, not jumping or galloping down - it was a good thing we were good little riders back then for we surely sent our horses crashing)</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">All their fear was suddenly let loose all at once and we "Snowy Rivered" it down the mountain. During this time I was exceedingly focused and its seemed like time was moving in slow motion - I could've sworn I heard something behind us, but it may have been my imagination. </span><br /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Once we hit the bottom of the ridge and I pulled Nightfire to a stop my brother did the same a few strides ahead of me. After all, what if it was all in my head? What if I had allowed my chicken hearted horse to scare me too. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">The second we stopped we heard a loud crash behind us as if something suddenly large suddenly came to a halt - we turned sprang forward again, the only time Nightfire ever performed a flawless rollback. My heart was trying leap out of my chest as I urged my horse on - he was one generation off the track so I was going to see exactly what he had, I knew what the chances were of out running a Mountain Lion so I opened him up. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Heart broken, crushed and scared, I suggested perhaps Mom could come out and go back up to the barn with us, I mean we were just scared - he said to leave mother alone as she was finishing dinner that we were late for and setting the table (</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 19px;">without any help from us - this unspoken part did not need to be spoken</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">), now go put your horses away and get your butts inside for dinner.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">Hey lets go back up there and hang out with our pal the cougar!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Scared to death my brother and I thought to put the horses in the lower pasture and set the tack on the ground or in the wood shed so we didn't have to go back up near the barn....but that would leave my old pony "Stormy Bear" in the upper pasture by the barn all by himself - essentially cougar food, or so I thought. So armed with nothing we walked our mounts back up to the barn. We got inside, shut the doors, lit the place up and ripped the saddles off and booted the horses outside in the pasture with Stormy. Loose in the pasture they seemed rather unconcerned - where as just minutes ago they were wide eyed with fear.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Trebuchet MS, Trebuchet, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">We tossed them their evening feed and then debated on whether or not to to walk back to the house in the dark on foot. Scared silly we had little choice - if we waited for Mom or Dad to come up there and get us - we would be in big trouble. That being said - looking back on the situation I guess you could say we were more afraid of Mom and Dad than we were a Mountain Lion. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">It most likely was just chasing you off its kill and when you ran from it - it gave chase. We shouldn't have run, he said. You never run from a Mountain Lion, it triggers a chase instinct, he will always go after you. Stand up and look big, make noise, make it known that you know he's there and you will foil his plan, knowing his advantage is gone many big cats will go away or break off any oncoming attack.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Well that's nice to know now. Thanks for the advice Dad.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Now my hubby is a man's man - you don't get much more macho than that one right there, doesn't cry, gun in his truck, doesn't drink wine, doesn't carry a purse (ever) for the wife, and is never scared. So it kind of woke me up a bit. He was quiet for a moment and that's when I heard it - plain as day even though the house was locked up like Fort Knox. It was a screaming howling noise...it was one of those things that instantly scares you so bad that your eyes water - ever had that happen? </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Maybe its just me - anyways my skin crawled...and I jumped out of bed. "Bring Taz in the house!" I shouted running for my shoes. The noise sounded again this time longer - and it was coming from everywhere, it didn't sound like a mountain lion because I know what those sound like - this was deeper, louder and had almost a mournful quality to it and it sounded like it was coming from our dang back yard. "She's hiding in her doghouse...stay inside!" He said in a firm hushed voice. He killed all the lights in the house and the motion lights outside since those were all lit up, grabbed our spot light, his rifle and slowly opened the sliding door out to our back deck.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">We heard it again this time being so loud with the door open that I actually cowered and covered my ears. I was so damn scared I thought my heart would beat right out of my chest. When he stepped out on to the deck he kicked on the spot light - 2 million candle power double halogen bulbs lit-up our back yard, the field beyond, and woods beyond it like daylight. Expecting to see a beast from hell I plugged my ears ready for shots to ring out....</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">But we saw nothing. Not even a pair little eyes from the woods starring back at us reflecting the light, just nothing. He panned the light sweeping the bright beam from left to right, nothing. It was perfectly quiet outside as if whatever had made that noise had silenced every living creature within ear shot of our house. He stepped back inside reached to the table behind him and switched his rifle for a shotgun - I covered my ears again as he let four consecutive shots off spraying the tree line on our property with bird shot, it was quiet again. With my ears ringing before he could stop me I zipped out the back door and true to his word Taz our aging rotty dog was hiding shaking like a leaf in her house. I called her and she jumped up and ran for the door - just barely beating me back inside.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">"What the hell was that!!" I whisper shouted <i>(if you don't know what a whisper shout is then you're not a girl)</i>. "I don't know," he said locking the door behind me. "Could be a Mountain Lion..." he suggested. "That was no mountain lion..." I retorted. "I don't know..." he kept saying. "Should we call the sheriff?" I asked. "And tell them what?" he asked "We heard a loud noise and are scared? I'm sure they will be right out here." I knew he was right. The sheriff's department didn't come out our way unless someone was dying.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">The dog had taken shelter on her bedroom pillow and was still shaking. I was still shaking, it took an hour to stop shaking. We heard the sound only once more and is sounded far in the distance, we could barely make it out. Hubby and I went to bed after a while when the horizon finally started to turn grey, locked up tight in our house in the bedroom with the dog at the foot of the bed - I noticed she never went back to sleep either just laid there quietly like us - until sunrise.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Neither of us have spoken of the event until now...we just don't bring it up. My theory is that it was Bigfoot <i>(I have since heard Bigfoot recordings on the web and on TV that sound exactly like what we heard that night)</i> but Hubby doesn't believe in such things so I guess it's like maybe it won't happen again if we don't talk about it? Go figure. Haven't heard it since in 10 years...</span><br />
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There are always hundreds of answers to that question because there really isn’t a single ‘best’ soap to store; almost any soap is good to stock up on compared to none at all. If they have to, people can make do cleaning most things with just about any common soap. If you make your own soap, that is a very frugal and admirable skill. Homemade soap is a good option if you have time to make extra and stock up on it <a href="http://americanpreppersnetwork.com/2013/05/how-to-make-your-own-soap.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">click here to see an article on how to make your own bar soap!</span></a> <br />
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<b>All soaps have strengths and weaknesses; here are five soaps that have multiple uses that make them ideal for storage and emergency use. Maybe one of these soaps will work for you!</b></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=beingst-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B002PLFOYE&ref=tf_til&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="color: #336699; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">1) Dawn</span></a>:</span></strong></span><span style="font-size: 11.818181991577148px;"> (or an equivalent) dish washing detergent: Dawn is well-known for getting dishes clean, but did you know that it is well-known for doing that even with cold water? Their website encourages people to try washing dishes in cold water to conserve power. This would also be handy in the event of a long-term power outage. Dawn is also commonly used as shampoo to remove product build-up and strip excess oil. Because Dawn is non-toxic and biodegradable you can make an insecticide with it (as well as from other biodegradable soaps) by diluting it with water. Other insects such as ants tend to avoid treated areas also making it a repellant. Dawn also makes an effective flea bath for cats and dogs.</span></div>
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The grease busting power of Dawn makes it an acceptable substitute for laundry detergent and/or a pre-treatment for tough stains. (Although care must be taken not to add too much Dawn or there will be an overflow of bubbles and trouble with rinsing.) Mixed with boiling water Dawn can also help clear a grease clogged drain in the kitchen and it makes an effective glass cleaner when just a drop or two is added to vinegar and water. <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=beingst-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B002PLFOYE&ref=tf_til&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; color: #336699; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Dawn detergent</span></a></span> will store for years and remain effective; however, the soap may separate if exposed to extreme temperature swings.</div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000536AR/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=beingst-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0000536AR" style="color: #336699; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">2) Ivory:</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 11.818181991577148px;"> </span></strong></span><span style="font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">Classic Ivory soap is biodegradable; it was originally marketed as a laundry soap bar and is still used in many different </span><span style="color: blue; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;"><a href="http://americanpreppersnetwork.com/2012/06/diy-laundry-soap-save-money-right-now.html" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; color: #336699; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;" title="DIY Laundry Soap – Save Money Right Now!"><span style="color: blue;">homemade laundry soap</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 11.818181991577148px;"> recipes. If doing laundry by hand the old-fashioned way, classic Ivory is still capable of getting your clothes clean and residue free. Because bars of Ivory floated in water it became a popular bathing soap.</span></div>
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Today Classic Ivory still has many uses. Bars of Ivory soap can also be used as an insecticide by grating it first then melting it down with heated water to create a liquid soap. The resulting liquid Ivory can also be used for dish washing, and shampooing. Since Classic Ivory soap is only lightly scented, floats, and is free from many of the additives that make other soaps undesirable for environmental and health concerns, it’s a very popular choice for campers and preppers. Classic Ivory bar soap will store indefinitely without any additional treatment. Be sure to look for the “It Floats!” slogan and “99 44/100% Pure” statement on the label. There are several different types of Ivory now, and the <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006VWSIU/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=beingst-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0006VWSIU" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; color: #336699; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Classic Ivory</span></a></span> bars are the only ones that float, the formula on the rest of Ivory’s products are different.</div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004SV0A3E/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=beingst-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B004SV0A3E" style="color: #336699; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">3) Soap Flakes:</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 11.818181991577148px;"> </span></strong></span><span style="font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">Soap Flakes is another product that was originally invented as laundry soap because it was much easier to dissolve them in warm water than it was to grate down a solid bar of soap. Soap Flakes are pure soap in a flake form; they are made from a 100% vegetable base of palm and coconut oils. They contain no bleaches, phosphates, enzymes, or perfumes and are completely biodegradable. Soap Flakes can be used as laundry soap, dish soap, body soap, and as a general household cleaner. They are notably mild and frequently recommended for the cleaning of children’s toys, laundry, and even as a children’s bath soap.</span></div>
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For years<span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004SV0A3E/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=beingst-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B004SV0A3E" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; color: #336699; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"> Soap Flakes</span></a></span> were our grandmother’s choice for hand washing dedicates and wool. They will store for years in their dry form, are light weight, and are easy to dissolve for any of the above uses. Soap Flakes’ friendliness to the environment and light weight have made them a popular choice for backpackers and campers for years, for this reason they are also a common item in bug out bags.</div>
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<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00A7ZD9RE/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=beingst-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00A7ZD9RE" style="color: #336699; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">4) Fel’s Naptha:</span></a></span></strong></span><span style="font-size: 11.818181991577148px;"> Fel’s -Naptha was originally invented and marketed as a heavy-duty laundry soap bar and still is today. The potent bars of Fel’s-Naptha are most commonly used as a pre-treatment for stains and they frequently out perform their higher priced spray bottle competitors in that area. Fel’s-Naptha is the current best-selling choice for those who </span><span style="color: blue; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;"><a href="http://americanpreppersnetwork.com/2012/06/diy-laundry-soap-save-money-right-now.html" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; color: #336699; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;" title="DIY Laundry Soap – Save Money Right Now!">make their own laundry detergent</a>.</span><span style="font-size: 11.818181991577148px;"> When combined with ingredients like borax and washing soda, a single bar of Fel’s-Naptha will last nearly a year. How is that for cost efficient?</span></div>
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Fel’s-Naptha can also be used to treat poison ivy, poison oak, or sumac rash when used just after exposure occurs. The soap will break up the oils from the plants, which contain the toxins. It can also be used in bathrooms to remove soap scum and in the garden as an insecticide. Fel’s-Naptha is not flawless however, as it still contains strong perfumes, additives for color, and <em>shouldn’t</em> be used on the skin as a replacement for regular body soap. Fel’s-Naptha once contained Stoddard solvent, which is a known eye irritant, but according to their website the soap no longer contains the solvent. <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001B32NVO/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=beingst-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001B32NVO" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; color: #336699; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Fel’s-Naptha</span></a></span> soap, like Ivory, will store indefinitely with no additional treatment.</div>
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<strong><a href="http://store.homefrontgeneral.com/bronners-soap-peppermint" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">5) </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: blue;">Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soap:</span></span></a></strong><span style="font-size: 11.818181991577148px;"> Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soap is a liquid Castile soap. Castile soap is a name used for olive oil based soaps, which are frequently noted for their mildness. For years Dr. Bronner’s has been one of the best-selling holistic soaps on the market with good reason. Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soap also has many uses, it comes in several different scents including un-scented and it’s completely biodegradable. </span></div>
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Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soap can be used for everyday washing, shampooing, dish washing, as a shaving cream, for tooth brushing (although I have heard the taste is awful), for laundry, for household cleaning and its high glycerin content allows it to be used as a leather soap in a pinch. Parenting forums have claimed the tea tree variety of Dr. Bronner’s is effective in treating and repelling lice and fleas. <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://store.homefrontgeneral.com/bronners-soap-peppermint" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; color: #336699; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soap</span></a></span> will store for long periods of time but, like other liquid soaps, may separate if exposed to dramatic shifts in temperature - this would not effect the cleaning power of the soap. </div>
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<em><strong>So if you could only prep one kind of soap, what would it be? Please feel free to leave your comments and ideas for others!</strong></em></div>
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<i><b>I love holiday weekends and not just for the time off of work either, mostly for the sales! This is a GREAT shopping weekend for preppers! Be on the lookout for the following items (got another one? Add it to the comments below so everyone else benefits from your finds!) you can pick these items up cheaper this weekend than almost any other time during the year.</b></i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #082541; font-family: Oswald, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">No, its not spaghetti sauce, but it is real close to spaghetti sauce! Not real chunky but very versatile in what you can do with it. One night it can be a soup stock, the other night it can be spaghetti sauce, the next you can use to to flavor your sloppy joes or meat loaf. Best of all, if you have bags and bags of tomatoes from the garden sitting in your kitchen - it will very quickly use up a ton of tomatoes! </span><br />
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</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #082541; font-family: Oswald, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">The recipe I used was from the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #082541; font-family: Oswald, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span style="color: blue;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Oswald, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ball-Blue-Book-Guide-Preserving/dp/0972753702" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Ball Blue Book</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Oswald, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> </span></u></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #082541; font-family: Oswald, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">. If you don't already have a copy of that inexpensive but incredibly useful book, I highly recommend picking one up. It's a hundred years worth of time proven and safe food preserving recipes. If you look at this recipe, and are put off by the fact that it is not your favorite family recipe of chunky tomatoes, peppers, and mushrooms - but merely a 'tomato sauce' there is a reason for that, bare with me. </span><br />
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<img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=beingst-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B001DIXG9A" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /></span><span style="color: #082541; font-family: Oswald, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Anything canned in a boiling water bath canner needs to be high acid (for the science buffs, this means that it has to have a pH of 4.5 or below). This is because botulism cannot grow in high acid environments. However, tomatoes are in the grey zone of acidity, typically having a pH right around 4.5. Since they are, you need to add acid to tomatoes when you can them, so that the levels are pushed into the safe zone and the pH becomes something lower than 4.5. That’s why all good proven recipes you'll find for water bath canning tomatoes includes two tablespoons of bottled lemon juice per quart jar (you can also use citric acid, or red wine vinegar).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #082541; font-family: Oswald, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Which brings us to the approved homemade seasoned tomato sauce recipe that is found in the Ball Blue Book. Sound too bland and unexciting? </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #082541; font-family: Oswald, tahoma, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">FEAR NOT! This tomato sauce is NOT bland! Far from it. It has all the flavor one could want for an excellent pot of spaghetti. Personally I LOVE it. You would only need to add a few ingredients from your food storage to turn it into a pot of spaghetti sauce and no one could tell that this wasn't the original family recipe. Look for these tips at the bottom of the article.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #082541; font-family: Oswald, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Day 1:</strong></span> Gather the tomatoes from your garden and go grocery shopping for all the prep work. Wash tomatoes; drain. Remove core and blossom ends. Cut into quarters; set aside.Sauté onions and garlic in olive oil in a large stock pot <em>(I used a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001AS81BG/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001AS81BG&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20"><span style="color: blue;">20 qt stainless steel,</span></a> because they are an easy to clean stock pot ,and it was too small and had to add the smaller 12 qt — go bigger!).</em> Add tomatoes, oregano, basil, bay leaves, black pepper and sugar. Stir in salt and crushed red pepper, if desired. Simmer 20 minutes, stirring, it may take up to an hour for your tomatoes to reach a simmering temperature <em>(don't get impatient and crank the heat up, you'll just burn them to the bottom)</em>. Remove bay leaves.</div>
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Cattle bred for beef are amazingly hardy animals that can eat almost unusable pastureland and turn it into high quality protein for people. Homegrown beef is usually always healthier than its grocery store counter parts, because it is far more likely to be pasture fed and since most homegrown beef doesn't spend time in a feedlot it is usually hormone and antibiotic free. There are many benefits to raising your own beef. </div>
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I grew up helping my dad with the cattle he raised, on average we ran 20-30 head of beef cattle every year and even now I try to keep as many as my property will support, as a result I have developed an educated opinion on the different methods of raising beef. Keeping cattle is one of the many livestock choices a homesteader can make to secure a year's supply of meat and to take that extra step in self-reliance but it's not for everyone. Here is what you need to know about raising your own beef to decide if it's direction you'd like to go. </div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">-<a href="http://inchsurvival.com/site/2013/07/raising-your-own-beef/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Click here to read the rest of this article</span></a>- </span></b><br />
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Vitamins are commonly found on the food storage lists of people who practice emergency preparedness, because as stored food ages the vitamins within the food degrades. Therefore, if they are faced with a long term emergency in which they find themselves relaying heavily on their food storage or on reduced rations there is a good chance that they may also be suffering from one or more vitamin deficiencies as time goes on.<br />
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Vitamin deficiencies are serious and can even cause death. Diseases like scurvy, rickets, and night blindness are all caused by vitamin deficiencies. <a href="http://listverse.com/2012/03/16/top-10-vitamin-deficiencies/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Click here to see the top 10 vitamin deficiencies that still exist today.</span></a><br />
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While there are other options to get extra nutrients even when confined indoors, like eating sprouts, to guard against vitamin deficiencies many preppers add vitamins to their emergency supplies.<br />
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All vitamins are equal, and any vitamin is better than no vitamin at all right? Or so many retailers would like you to believe. In fact, they aren't equal at all.<br />
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Many grocery store vitamins, including Centrum and OneADay aren't the best quality on the market; don't even get me started on gummy vitamins. Besides the fact that gummies are full of sugar, artificial flavors, and artificial colors - along with most grocery store vitamins gummies are SYNTHETIC vitamins. They are also full of citric acid (vitamin C) and because the gelatin sticks to your teeth and/or your kid's teeth, it eats away at the tooth enamel where as with normal vitamins there would be little or no contact with your teeth.<br />
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Why go through the trouble of avoiding GMOs and growing your own organic food only to go buy and consume synthetic vitamins made in a lab? Why not get good "whole food" vitamins?? From companies with good ethics. <b>Apply the same values that you adhere to with your food, to your everyday vitamins AND your emergency supply.</b><br />
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"Food based or whole food vitamins" are vitamins that come from actual food and are not made in a lab. When you read the ingredient list you won't see yellow number 5, and calcium carbonate (which is more like a rock than a digestible form of calcium, its one of the worst forms of calcium on the market) you will instead see CARROTS, WILD BLUEBERRIES, ETC.... they even have organic, vegan and gluten-free whole food vitamins.<br />
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Some of the companies that make those synthetic vitamins are also owned by the same companies we complain about not wanting them to mess with our FOOD! Centrum is owned by Pfizer <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/036459_Centrum_vitamins_Pfizer.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">(source)</span></a>. One-A-Day you ask? Owned by Bayer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_A_Day" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">(source)</span></a>! So, if you don't want them messing with your food or with seeds from which your food grows, why would you buy their vitamins?<br />
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There are a few that are independently owned companies out there and if you choose to stay with synthetics, independent companies, like Nature Made are not a bad way to go. Costco's Kirkland line continues to be ranked exceedingly well in the synthetic category. Supposedly NBTY manufactures the Kirkland line up of vitamins, but I can't confirm that. NBTY manufactures Natures Bounty.<br />
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When vitamins upset your stomach or you burp them up all day or they turn your pee day-glow yellow, those are usually side effects of 'synthetic' vitamins <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KDK1BU2DtDw" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">(source)</span></a>. Whole food vitamins will not upset your stomach, and you will not burp them up - because they are food, not chemicals<span style="color: blue;"> <span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KDK1BU2DtDw" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">(source)</span></a>.</span></span> Food based vitamins don't smell or taste like normal vitamins and will change your whole opinion of vitamins.<br />
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The processing of whole food vitamins excludes the use of heat, pressure and toxic solvents. No chemical or sugar coating is used to seal whole food vitamin tablets and no artificial chemicals are used. Whole food vitamin processing uses fresh, raw food ingredients prepared as food extracts. Your body will use what it needs and the rest goes out in the bathroom. With synthetics you can overdose - and the results can be toxic.<br />
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Swallowing pills a problem? Try a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0011DJ650/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0011DJ650&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" target="_blank">liquid vitamin</a> that is made from "whole foods" they contain all the vitamins and supplements in one single dose that tastes good (about a shot glass). They are highly absorbable and taste way better than they sound. There are many different brands of the liquid vitamins on the market and sugar free varieties as well. They are highly recommend for finicky children, adults that don't like pills (aka: finicky adults), and persons that have had lap-band or gastric bypass surgeries, colostomy surgery etc...<br />
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One of my favorite brands of solid 'food based' vitamins is <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00014HFV2/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00014HFV2&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" target="_blank">MegaFoods</a> </span>(pictured above). Does this mean that you have use that brand? No. Please do your own research on them. Another reputable brand that is producing affordable whole food vitamins is <a href="http://www.swansonvitamins.com/swanson-ultra-whole-food-multi-without-iron-90-tabs" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Swanson</span></a>. There is enough information out there on the different types of supplements and vitamins that I could literally write forever. There are several different types of calcium on the market some more absorbable than others, there are different types of vitamin C, and magnesium (a few that should be avoided) it is really worth looking into them before you buy.<br />
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<b>Folic Acid</b> is a member of the B vitamin family, it is a supplement that is commonly recommended for women who could become pregnant. It helps in the formation of new cells and prevents major birth defects. Like most other B vitamins it has been suggested that folic acid can help our brains cope with stress and depression<span style="color: blue;"> <a href="http://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness/food-nutrition/vitamin-supplements/folic-acid-benefits.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">(source).</span></a> </span>These things make folic acid and other B vitamins a good choice to add to your daily and emergency supplies.<br />
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This picture above shows a new bottle of MegaFood vitamins with an expiration date two and half years out. This means that you could EASILY <b>maintain and rotate a years supply of vitamins in your home </b>and that is what I recommend, a one year supply. Buy new bottles and put them in the back while rotating the oldest to the front and using that first. This ensures that no vitamins are ever wasted and if something bad were to happen, you'd have at least one year's worth of vitamins if not a little more.<br />
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If hard times have hit and you have taken in extra family or friends make the vitamins you have last longer by taking them once every three days or so. Quality vitamins can sill be effective when taken this way. Even when taken once a week it is better than not at all. Vitamin priority should be given to anyone who is pregnant in your group, the very young and the elderly. Disperse the remaining vitamins to others in your group every couple of days.<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.livestrong.com/article/293910-synthetic-vs-whole-food-vitamins/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Synthetic VS Whole Food Vitamins</span></a></b><br />
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Incomplete information distracts those who are new to the concept of prepping from focusing on what will save their lives, doing your own research from different sources helps fill these information gaps. There are always arguments on both sides. Questioning what you read on the internet, and even from me, is a good thing! It may not always be what you want to hear, but it will make you think.</div>
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<span style="color: #082541; font-family: Oswald, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Burning your trash may or may not be an opinion. Most modern wood stoves are not made to burn trash, the features that make them super efficient and "clean burning" will get gummed up with the residue of burning trash as opposed to wood. If you a have an older wood stove (prior to the late 80's) you should be fine burning trash as long as you have a way of keeping your chimney clean. </span><br />
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If you practice washing dishes a little bit now, you will learn that it does not take much water to get the job done. You can even sanitize them in direct sunlight, if you have had to use unfiltered water for washing. Learning to conserve water and practicing water efficient methods of washing dishes, is a better approach for long term emergencies than stocking plastic and paper dinnerware to avoid washing. This will also allow you to use that space to store maybe a little extra water, and to spend your money on more productive items like first aid supplies, soap, and food.</div>
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<span style="color: #082541; font-family: Oswald, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">This is an area of emergency preparedness that is usually explored to prepare for disasters that fall into the category of a "long term emergency". Something that would take down the electrical grid, food service, and government assistance on a large scale for several months or more, like a solar storm. </span><span style="color: #082541; font-family: Oswald, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">Now, since I know this is something preppers </span><em style="font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">love</em><span style="color: #082541; font-family: Oswald, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"> to stock up on and there are a TON of articles online about cool barter items that one can prep, so before you get upset, read why I don't believe in prepping barter items.</span></div>
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Someone once said this to me: "Well you can't possibly prep everything, that's why you would barter." I say if you have prepared wisely for yourself and whoever may join you for any disaster, and you have become as self-reliant as possible, hopefully you should not be "in real need" of much. In fact you will appear rich compared to the unprepared. My grandfather who grew up during the depression could tell you exactly how little one needs to survive. The original idea behind 'barter items' is to get things that you 'need' not to accumulate wealth or profit off of others in a time of emergency. I see bartering and commerce as an eventual must - depending on the length of the disaster, and only after things have calmed down somewhat and society adopts a new 'normal'.</div>
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If you do barter, and you do it more frequently than other people in your area, and/or if you have unusually nicer stuff than most, people will start to wonder what else you may have. They may start to think that if you have extra to barter, then you have extra for them to take. It could be a very dangerous activity and it could draw a lot of unwanted attention to you. Especially if you are bartering super high value items like cigarettes, alcohol or drugs. </div>
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Bartering is not the 'only' way to network and create goodwill in your community. If you start networking and bartering *now* in your community you won't have to worry about how to go about approaching people after a disaster. Goodwill can be created by helping others, with honesty, faithfulness, and charity. We don't get to throw charity out the window just because hard times hit, that's when we will all need it the most. I strongly believe that if we preppers are in a position to help, and we can do it safely, then we must help. It could be something as simple as teaching your neighbor how to filter water or as big as taking in your relatives that have mocked your prepping efforts in the past. There will be other options for charity and you will spot them along the way, and then at some point hopefully it will be safe'r' to engage in forms of barter and commerce for common needs and wants.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;">It started like this. In my quest for self-reliance, I wanted to have the ability to produce my own sugar if need be. I planned on adding honey bees to the farmstead this last spring - but 'we' spent money on a new chainsaw instead. My next thought was maple trees? Not unless I could pay to put in a bunch of 10 year-old sugar maple tress, hope they all lived, then maybe in another 10-15 years when they started to mature I would have some smallish trees I might be able to tap. Stevia plants? I found out, not only do they not grow in my zone, but I have noticed that they are rather finicky to grow indoors and don't like big shifts in temperature. That wouldn't work in our house with wood heat. Then I found my answer through my grandma.</span></h2>
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<strong>Sugar Beets. </strong>They used to grow them when my grandma was a child - but not just a couple of rows of them, they would plant a small field of them. She said that when they used the sugar from them, it was always a super dark brown sugar. So if one were using it in something like white cake or egg nog, that it would darken the color of what they were making but she remembered it still tasted really good. She said they processed them outside, because they smelled a little. Sugar beets contain 10-16% sucrose, compared to a sugar maple sap at 2% - this is why you need up to 40 gallons of sugar maple sap boiled down to make one gallon of maple syrup. The process is a tad quicker with sugar beets.</div>
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With a little research, I found a place to <span style="color: blue;"><strong><a href="http://www.sandmountainherbs.com/beet_sugar.html" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">buy sugar beet seed</a></strong></span> and <strong><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005UPCDFU/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B005UPCDFU&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">another place here</span></a></span></strong> and saw that they would grow perfectly in our Zone climate. They can be planted 4 weeks prior to the last frost, are cold hardy, and grow in full or partial sun. They also do not require a lot of water which makes them perfect! Sugar beets are cousins of turnips so their greens are completely edible for people, chickens, horses, pigs and cows. Needless to say, they did not go to waste at my place. They are really low maintenance and I really enjoyed growing them - you can pull them in mid summer or you can wait and pull them in the fall.</div>
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<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Here is the process I used:</strong></span> Once pulled, I cut the greens off and saved the ones we wanted to eat in the fridge, then I put the greens that were going to the chickens and livestock in a separate bucket. I scrubbed all the beats really well with a stiff bristle brush. When canning beets, you are supposed to boil and peel them first. However, I was not canning these beets wanted to use as much of the beet as possible so I did not peel them.</div>
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Next I chopped them up by hand into tiny cubes. I have also heard that using your food processor to shred them works well. Then I added them to a big stock pot and added just enough water to cover them up. I set them to boil for an hour. Your goal here is to extract as much sugar as possible through cooking them so you actually want them to end up all mushy. It was recommended to me that I cook them for 30-45 minutes, but I ended up cooking them for over an hour.<br />
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Then you need to strain the beet pulp from the liquid and transfer the liquid into a different pot. I read that traditionally a cheese cloth bag was used for straining then you twist it and wring it out to extract as much liquid as possible. I found using a<strong><span style="color: blue;"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00002N5ZQ/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00002N5ZQ&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">manual food mill</span></a></span></strong> helped move this process along a little faster. I mashed the beets in the mill and collected the liquid below. I stopped short of ricing them, as I didn't want all of the beet pulp to end up in the pot. This remaining liquid was then run through a jelly bag to remove any remaining chunks of plant matter. If you don't remove all the beet pulp - it will not store well.<br />
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The next step is cooking the liquid down. I was told that 'back in the day' they would reduce it down until crystals formed. I have found no guide on how much you are to reduce the liquid by or for how long to reduce the liquids. On that note, I was also told that at the time, most people did not have enough patience for crystallized sugar and would instead make beet 'syrup' and use the syrup in place of dry sugar. So with the goal of syrup in mind I brought my beet liquid up to a boil and started reducing, and reducing, and reducing the liquid.</div>
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After several hours, I was left with a small amount in one of my smallest pots. Now I was very suspicious of this because I could still smell the 'beets' and it still seemed watery, but when I tasted it - it was wonderful! It had a rich sweet syrupy flavor. So I continued boiling until I could see some 'sheeting' action with the syrup. "Sheeting" is what happens when you pour a little bit of the syrup out of the pot or a ladle and instead of it just pouring out like water, it starts to spread out, stick, and stiffen up a little. It may look like a little sheet of syrup trying to cling to the pot. This is also how to tell if maple syrup is ready for a hydrometer test. </div>
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<span style="color: #082541;">Now, at this point if you wanted, you could take your syrup to 40°F - 45°F </span><span style="color: blue;"><em><a href="http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/boiling-points-water-altitude-d_1344.html" style="color: #1a00ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">above the boiling temperature of water at your elevation</span></a></em></span><span style="color: #082541;"> (a </span><strong style="color: #082541;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002V5O0T4/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B002V5O0T4&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">candy thermometer</span></a></span></strong><span style="color: #082541;"> is handy for this, may I suggest a non-digital one) - if it foams you can skim the foam off, or add a drop or two of vegetable oil. Basically what you are doing is making hard rock candy, so if you have ever made candy before: you are taking the sugar syrup to the </span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.exploratorium.edu/cooking/candy/sugar-stages.html" target="_blank">"hard crack stage"</a> </span><a href="http://www.exploratorium.edu/cooking/candy/sugar-stages.html" target="_blank">(click link for more info)</a>.<span style="color: #082541;"> Then move it to a large flat pan continuously stirring until all moisture is gone. Later after it has cooled and hardened you can use a screen or a grater to grate down the hardened mass to a finer sugar like powder.</span><br />
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Sadly, I didn't end up with much syrup for all of my work. I understand now why each family grew so many sugar beets. I stuck the less than half full bottle of sugar beet syrup in my fridge and used it in my coffee, on my pancakes, and in smoothies for the rest of the summer. It always added a nice flavor. I am afraid if I had boiled it down to crystals I would not have had much to show for myself, however, if storage is your goal, crystals are the way to go.</div>
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My grandma told me that while the syrup they had never went bad, it was not uncommon for some mold to collect on the top of the syrup. To fix this they would just scoop it off with a spoon and bring the syrup back up to a boil for a few minutes again and it was good to go, however I don't think I will be trying that unless I have to, so for now I will just use the fridge.<br />
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The nice thing about this process is how little waste is produced and how usable every part of the sugar beet is! The beet pulp from cooking the beets went to the chickens and they LOVED it, but people can eat that too. The greens and tops went to both the livestock , chickens, and of course to us. The greens are completely edible - dehydrated and stored for later use in soups or Quiche or you can cook them up like collared greens. Collard greens, in one form or another, have been prepared by humans for 2000 years and were originally a survival food. They are a very good source of vitamin C, soluble fiber, and other good stuff . Here is a quick recipe I used, while not completely traditional - they sure did taste pretty good!</div>
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<li style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 4px;"><strong>One to one and a half pack of bacon! (traditionally this would be a ham hock - this recipe cheats and takes less time)</strong></li>
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Here is a list of some top tricks that have saved me money and time around the farmstead. Most of these have become second nature to me so I had kind of a hard time thinking of them. Some of them are so farm kid 101 that I just assume everyone knows this stuff, but if it helps someone out its worth it. Do you know of another one that should be on here? Add it to the comments below to help others out! </div>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: large;">Make your own chicken waters and feeders.</span> </span>Simple poultry waters and feeders can be made for under $10 using repurposed materials. They work just as good as store bought ones at a fraction of the cost. <span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://americanpreppersnetwork.com/diy/5055-how-to-simple-diy-chicken-feeder-and-waterer" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Click here to for an article on how to make traditional waterers and feeders.</span></a> </span><a href="http://stephaniedayle1.blogspot.com/2013/05/do-it-yourself-chicken-nipple-waterers.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Click here for and article on how to make nipple waterers.</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Pallets are forever handy</b></span>. A lot of lumber stores, give away used wooden pallets. Grab a couple and keep them on hand, they can be used in chicken runs during bad weather to give the birds an option to get out of the mud. They also work well keep hay off the moist ground, holding garden equipment and can be reposed into so many things.<br />
<br /><b><span style="font-size: large;">Use wood burning pellets to soak up minor annoying puddles in or around the barn or the farmyard.</span> </b>The pellets expand and soon you will have a small pile of sawdust to sweep up instead of an annoying puddle or wet spot.<br />
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<br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Those <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0038Q6LB0/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0038Q6LB0&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">cheap laundry buckets</span></a> you can buy at Walmart or Bi-Mart, are really Muck Buckets in disguise</span>.</span> Use them to clean out stalls or chicken coops, as stools to stand on, or put them in a stall or pen as an extra large water bucket. You have to refill these once for every 3 or 4 times you’d have to refill buckets. When they go on sale at Bi-Mart I can get them for $5 each.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><br /></span>There are a few types of hardwood that should be avoided for use with animals but those woods are not commonly used in wood burning pellets. The concern I commonly hear about oak is a result of waste wood from furniture building. Oak used for furniture making is commonly treated with ammonia to enhance its appearance and prolong it's life. Oak treated in this way should not be used as animal bedding however, ammonia treated oak cannot be used to make wood burning pellets, so it is a non-issue.<br />
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<br /><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">If you have to store a stock trailer outside park</span> it on wood before the winter so it doesn’t freeze to the ground and so that it doesn’t sink in the mud and become stuck come spring time. This practice will also prolong the life of your tires.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">To fight flies, and wasps around the barn</span>,</span> use simple homemade fly traps. Cut a plastic 2 liter bottle in half, flip the top upside down and insert back into the bottom half. Fill with a cup of fly attractant solution. Try diluting some cat food in water, old buttermilk, or some rotten meat in water as an attractant (do not use sugar or you will catch honey bees). Flies get in but they can't get out and drown.<br />
It's important to get these traps set out in the spring as they need some time to ferment to work effectively, the worse they smell the better they work. Using organic attractant means if one of the traps breaks and falls (and the chickens eat all the dead flies - which they will) no harm will come to your chickens or any other animal that may get into the nasty smelling fly trap. <br />
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<span style="color: #082541; font-family: Oswald, tahoma, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Dutch oven cooking is a great skill for anyone to learn and a dutch oven is a smart item to keep in your supplies. Besides being just plain fun to use, a dutch oven can provide an option for cooking if the power is out, knowing how to use one is another step in your journey of self-reliance. </span></span><br />
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</span></span> <span style="color: #082541; font-family: Oswald, tahoma, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">A favorite cooking method of homesteaders, outdoorsmen, and those who live off grid, it's also a great way to enjoy dinner in the outdoors and not dirty up the kitchen. Once you decide to give dutch oven cooking a try, you need to find an oven that is right for you, because of course there are many different kinds! </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #082541; text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Outdoor (or Camp) Dutch Ovens (pictured below):</strong> </span><span style="color: #082541;">Have feet (usually three of them), a snug fitting lid with a brim that holds the lid in place, and handle or two coming off the sides and over the top (called a bail) so that you can pick the whole thing up with </span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000TPDJE/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0000TPDJE&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #082541; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">a lid lifter</span></a> </span><span style="color: #082541;">(long metal handle with a hook) these ovens are made to be used directly in a campfire or hung over a campfire so they get HOT. You usually find these outdoor ovens at Outdoor Adventure/Sports stores where you would normally find camping equipment. They are a tad expensive to get online as cast iron is heavy to ship. </span><strong><span style="color: blue; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00008GKDW/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00008GKDW&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Click here to see one.</a></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Indoor (or Kitchen) Dutch Ovens:</span> </strong>Don't have feet, they have a smooth bottom, and usually lack a handle that goes over the top (a bail), but they may have two side handles so that you can grab it with oven mitts. These ovens are made, ironically, to be used in your electric oven at home or to be sat on top of a wood stove or other heat source. Because they lack a bail and feet - they usually don't work well for campfire/outdoor cooking. You can find indoor dutch ovens at most department stores and online for reasonable prices. <span style="color: blue;"><strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00063RWYI/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00063RWYI&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #082541; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Click here to see one.</span></a></strong></span></div>
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<strong style="color: #082541;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Aluminum or Cast Iron? (both pictured to the left):</span> </strong><span style="color: #082541;">Dutch ovens are made with aluminum and with cast iron. </span><span style="color: #082541;">Aluminum is much lighter than cast iron and is often used for packing trips to save on weight, it is also much more expensive right now than cast iron. If you wanted a dutch oven for prepping purposes that you could also take with you while bugging out to a different location, aluminum is the choice for you. <i>It's </i></span><i><span style="color: #082541;">not</span><span style="color: #082541;"> dangerous to cook or eat from aluminum pots and pans as it was once was believed </span><span style="color: #082541;">(see references at the bottom this statement is backed up)</span><span style="color: #082541;">. </span></i><br />
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It used to be that even the poorest frontiersman had at least one dutch oven to their name. This was for good reason as there is not much you can't cook in a dutch oven. One can even flip the lid over and use it as a frying pan. Cast iron takes longer to heat up but holds it holds heat for a long time and does not suffer from cold spots as bad as aluminum does. Cooking in a nice cast iron dutch oven will more closely simulate the heat of your electric oven at home. When weight is not a issue I prefer my cast iron oven. <span style="color: blue;"><strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002YUNXS/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0002YUNXS&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #082541; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Click here to see another one.</span></a></strong></span></div>
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<strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Quality:</span></strong> Let's say you want an outdoor dutch oven for the sake of the article. You don't have to buy a name brand oven for it to work if you don't want to. Just like anything else you can spend as much or as little money as you want on a dutch oven. You can find them used on craigslist, at yard sales, or you can buy them new. If you are just starting out and you just want a good one, Lodge Logic is a good American made brand you can often find in department stores. I also like Stansport and Camp Chief too though.</div>
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If you are buying a mystery brand check the thickness of the iron. It should be fairly thick and the same amount of thickness all over. The lid should fit tight all the way around - this prevents steam from escaping while you are cooking. The legs should be positioned in such a way that the oven will remain stable when standing with a load of food inside. Make sure that the lid handle is attached at both ends with a hollow center - this allows you to use a lid lifter, as opposed to your hands to get the lid off to check your food or rotate the lid. So, yes, you do need a lid to your oven. Also make sure there is nothing riveted on the oven. Rivets are cheap and they fail. Pass on ovens with rivets.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=beingst-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B0008G2W2K" height="1" style="border-bottom-style: none !important; border-color: initial !important; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-width: initial !important; border-width: initial; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="1" /><br />
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<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Pre-seasoned Dutch Ovens:</strong></span> The seasoning on a dutch oven gives it a non-stick surface that rivals teflon, it also waterproofs it to help prevent rust. Once you have a dutch oven, even if it is "pre-seasoned" by the factory many experts, including me, still recommend that you strip the factory seasoning and do it again yourself. I find that the seasoning I do myself far out performs the factory seasoning. If you want to strip your pre-seasoned dutch oven see the directions below for using the cleaning cycle on your electric or gas oven.<br />
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<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Stripping a Dutch Oven:</strong></span> You easily can strip a dutch oven of old seasoning, or pre-seasoning with one easy step of putting it inside your electric oven (handles removed) upside down with the lid on the dutch oven feet during a cleaning cycle! This results in some ash and smoke in your house - opening a window is recommended. When the ash is wiped away you'll have a perfectly clean dutch oven ready to be re-seasoned. If there is any rust on the oven, now is a good time to scrub it off with some steel wool.</div>
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</strong></span> <strong style="text-decoration: underline;">If its Not Pre-seasoned:</strong> But is is still new, it will have a protective waxy coating on it that needs to come off. It is hard work to get this coating off - but it needs to be done. Use hot hot hot soapy water (so hot you should be wear rubber gloves), some steel wool and alot of elbow grease. Scrub until you can't feel it anymore then wipe it down with a paper towel. If your paper towel still comes up with residue then you have more scrubbing to do. THIS IS THE ONLY TIME YOU WILL EVER USE SOAP ON YOUR OVEN (while I understand some people do - I do not use soap on mine as I have seen the seasoning damaged by it).<br />
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Next, you need season your dutch oven right away to insure rust does not take hold again. Make sure your oven is completely dry from your scrubbing by placing it inside an electric oven upside down with the bail removed, with the lid placed on the feet for 30 minutes at 200 degrees. When it comes out it will be perfectly dry and ready for oil. Wait for it to cool off a little first before applying oil. You want it warm, but cool enough for you to handle with your bare hands.<br />
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<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Seasoning a Dutch Oven:</strong></span> There are as many different theories on how to "correctly season" a dutch oven as there are stars in the sky. I will share with you my approach but doing your own research is always good since it really boils down to a personal preference.<br />
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People like to argue about which oil to use, personally I use either vegetable oil or tallow. Here is why: vegetable oil has a lower burning point than peanut or olive oils and will therefore set up and harden at lower temperatures (meaning you don't have to run your oven at 500°F all day to do it). Tallow has a higher smoking point and will set up a very durable coating that is resistant to high temperatures. For beginners I recommend vegetable oil, it's easy, it lasts for most uses, and everyone has it. However if you have tallow, give it a try the benefit is that it is more durable to higher temperates which could come in handy when cooking over an open fire.<br />
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So next take a paper towel or cotton rag and apply a thin layer of cooking oil covering every square inch of the oven inside and out. If there is excess oil soak it up with a dry towel.<br />
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Allow your dutch oven to slowly cool until it you can handle it with your bare hands, but it should still be warm. Apply another light coating of oil. Bake again at 400° F (or 475° if using tallow) for an hour. Repeat this process at least one more time, you may want to do it two or three more time. It's important to apply the oil while the dutch oven is still warm - the pores in the cast iron are open and the warmth liquifies the oil even more.<br />
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<strong><u>Caring For Your Dutch Oven:</u></strong> After seasoning is complete apply another light coating of oil over the entire oven while it is still warm. This will protect it from rust and make it ready for your first meal or for storage. Take a towel to it to make sure that oil is not pooled anywhere. Pooled oil will go rancid. Over time the non-stick protective coating you just applied will turn dark and almost black with age. This is a sign of a well kept and used oven. You are now ready to cook in your dutch oven.<br />
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From now on after you cook in your dutch oven you will empty it, add a little water and heat it to boiling or near boiling, then using a plastic scrubber or a natural bristle brush (the boiling water will sterilize your dutch oven) and scrub the oven out and wipe is clean with a towel. After your dutch oven is dry apply another light coating of oil for storage. Never add cool water to a hot dutch oven! It may crack. Wait until the oven is cool enough to touch by hand to add water to clean it.<br />
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Tallow is rendered beef or sheep fat that is made from suet (<i>pictured below</i>), which is the fat from only around the kidneys or liver. Other beef fat will render down but will not have the same qualities. Rendered tallow is solid at room temperature, and can be stored for extended periods without the need for refrigeration to prevent it from going rancid. This makes it very attractive to those who live off the grid, homestead, or practice emergency preparedness. Tallow can also be made from other animals using the suet fat but beef or sheep tallow is usually preferred.</div>
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Making your own tallow, while time consuming, is easy and learning how to make it could be invaluable to emergency preparedness. Making your own tallow means one less thing you need purchase or trade from someone else. Tallow can completely replace your supply of Crisco, it is high in omega 3, vitamin D3, calcium, and contains zero trans-fats. Tallow, being an animal fat is mostly saturated fat. However, it is important to know that recent research has shown saturated fat plays far less of a role in developing heart disease than previously suspected.<br />
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The uses for tallow are almost endless. Tallow has a dry waxy texture making it undesirable for sausage and other meat processing, but it does have a high smoke point at 400°F and an even higher flash point ( the temperature at which the oil ignites into flames) which makes it a world class deep frying oil. It is commonly used to make: homemade soap, bio-diesel, leather conditioner, shortening in everyday cooking, tallow candles, and feed for small song birds in the winter time. Historically it has even been used to grease train and steam engine parts and rifles.<br />
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Mostly I make tallow for soap and seasoning cast iron (the previously mentioned high smoke point makes it ideal for seasoning dutch ovens). Making tallow is one more way I can make use of the animals we raise for meat so that nothing goes to waste. </div>
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Beef suet from the store or butcher will always come frozen as suet has a low melting temperature and will begin to melt at room temperature. It is for this reason you should begin to trim and chop it up while it's STILL FROZEN. Be sure to remove any and all meat and as much blood as possible from the fat – this will help ensure that your final product will last a long time without going rancid. Cut your suet up into 1 inch squares, some people then run it through a grater to get even smaller pieces, but I find an inch to work just fine. Feed the tallow trimmings to your dogs, or chickens so nothing is wasted – both animals can process fat better than people and will enjoy the treat.<br />
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Put all the cubed fat into your slow cooker and set to high <i>(remember the high smoking point – you aren’t going to burn your tallow in your slow cooker)</i>. The rendering process will take a couple of hours – longer if you have bigger chunks of suet. You may want to take your slow cooker outdoors or out to the garage because it will smell. The chunks of fat shrink up and turn a golden brown (these are called cracklings) your tallow is ready to strain.<br />
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Ladle the liquid fat and cracklings through the wire mesh strainer into a pre-warmed pot on your stove on low heat. When the slow cooker is empty, take your ladle and press the cracklings in the strainer to extract as much liquid as possible. You can then dry your cracklings and put them on your salad, bake them in cornbread, or eat them like pork rinds. Chickens also LOVE cracklings, my cracklings usually go to the chickens.<br />
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Take a coffee filter and put it over the top of your clean quart jar making a little well for the oil, hold it in place with the ring for the jar as pictured. Next ladle your liquid tallow from the pot to your jar. This will take a long time, be patient and change your coffee filter often as it will clog while removing impurities you don’t want in your tallow. If you cheat and use a paper towel or poke holes in the coffee filter you will have to repeat the whole process to get the purity you need.<br />
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Tallow will strain better hot – so if it is just barely dripping, increase the heat on the stove to med-low or medium, just keep an eye on your oil, you will smell it if it gets too hot. This is the slowest part of the process and may need to repeat it if your liquid tallow is still cloudy and/or contains sediment. The more pure your tallow, the longer it will last.<br />
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Once you have strained all your liquid tallow into the jar (be careful the jar will be just as hot as the oil) clean up the jar and ring so no grease remains on the rim. While jar is still hot, treat a canning jar lid briefly with boiling water just as you would for canning and set it firmly on your jar of hot tallow. Next apply the now clean canning jar ring. Using oven mittens, set your jar in the fridge and leave it alone. It will seal itself similar to as if you had canned it. Keep your tallow in a cool dry place this way for six months or longer – I have kept tallow good this way for a year. It will turn a pretty snow white color and solidify.</div>
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<b style="color: #082541;">Yes it should. Things that would prevent this from happening are:</b><span style="color: #082541;"> Not completely filtering the impurities completely out of the suet. </span><b style="color: #082541;">Solution:</b><span style="color: #082541;"> heat the tallow back up and run the hot oil through coffee filters and even though it takes forever and you have to change the filter out with every scoop, DO NOT CHEAT, or try 'wet rendering' the suet - you read about that method by </span><a href="http://thedomesticman.com/2011/01/18/how-to-render-tallow-beef-fat/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">clicking here.</span></a><br />
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<b>Also what might prevent the tallow from turning white is </b>if the butcher shop or meat counter did not actually give you "suet." If they just gave you some random frozen beef fat, that may have been labeled suet - but wasn't actually suet, no matter how much you filter it will not turn a snow white color. <b>Solution: </b>Feed the beef fat you just rendered to wild birds, your chickens, dogs, or use it for soapmaking, just know that it is not going to depart the same qualities to your soap as real tallow would. For the next batch, go to a different store or shop and make sure the fat they give you looks similar to the picture and description above. Real suet should have a unique waxy texture, it should be crumbly when you cut it. </div>
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<li><a href="http://www.kitchenstewardship.com/2009/11/10/food-for-thought-lard-and-tallow-healthy-fats/"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.kitchenstewardship.com/2009/11/10/food-for-thought-lard-and-tallow-healthy-fats/</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallow"><span style="color: blue;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallow</span></a></li>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00029307154132762913noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7051609727272394086.post-83032470092696349802013-06-12T07:00:00.000-07:002015-05-06T23:35:09.835-07:0010 Things We Can Learn From Old HomesteadsBy Stephanie Dayle<br />
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These pictures are from an authentic homestead on a piece of property my family owns and tries to maintain, but it's a losing battle against time and money. There used to be dozens of these old abandoned homesteads in my area. When I was a kid I loved to explore them, it was like walking back in time. They were places where settlers actually took advantage of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_Acts" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Homesteading Act</span></a> to acquire a large chunk of land and live off of it.<br />
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Today most of these old beauties have been torn down for safety reasons, and because they have become an eye sore to modern society. Some have even been pillaged to feed the demand for 'old barn wood' that is now considered stylish. However, if you have ever had the privilege of walking around one, you will find there are still plenty things they can teach us about self-reliance, values and priorities.<br />
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<b>1. Settle Near a Good Source of Running Water</b>.</h3>
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Running water stays cleaner than anything that sits still, it is the last to freeze and easiest to keep open when it does freeze. Not only is there a fresh supply of water at hand but there is usually a fresh supply of fish. There were no drilled or dug wells on this property until the 1950's.</div>
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Water is always a good draw for game animals. Cattle and livestock were not common to homesteaders in this area until the 1930's - 40's, most settlers lived off of large game (that is still plentiful in Eastern Washington), via hunting and trapping. This is evidenced by the importance that is still placed on hunting, fishing and 'getting your meat in the freezer' by lifetime residents of the area today.</div>
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This cabin is well over 100 years old, and was updated on several occasions before it was left to the hands of time. It is still very sturdy, cool in the summer and warm when it's cold without any fire. This type log construction was fairly commonly in the area at this time, and it had to be sturdy to hold up to the winter snow load on the roof. I have seen some old pictures of this place in the winter when you could not see any of the ground level windows because the snow was so high. The metal on the roof was a recent upgrade, I can tell because it is laid over wood shingles. </div>
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I have also taken notice that the location of this structure catches the morning sun and gets a little afternoon shade from the mountains to the west. Their homes did not have to be gigantic or fancy, they didn't have to have the best view or be perched on the side of a mountain, they only needed to provide safety from the wilderness outside, and warmth. <i>It was the people inside who made it a home.</i> There are many lessons here.</div>
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This wood has been here since my family acquired this property when I was child. The eaves protect it and keep it dry. There are several significantly larger piles of old wood on the property. I was told this little one room cabin would go through four cords of wood during a typical winter up here and judging from the amount that was cut and stacked in the other piles I would guess they always had two winters worth of wood on hand.</div>
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Winter in this area can sneak up on residents and cut the fall wood collecting season short. Having a supply on hand at all times was considered commonsense. Speaking from experience, since wood heat is still prevalent in Eastern Washington, one is still generally considered 'lazy' if they are caught buying firewood or putting it up at the last moment as the snow is starting to fall.<br />
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There was no electricity for the pioneer Homesteaders - and then when most of the nation had it, electricity <i>still</i> wasn't available in remote areas like this until the 1940s! Even then it was unstable and undependable until the 1990s. Outages would happen frequently for seemingly no reason and last for weeks at a time. Having a dependable source of heat that did not require electricity was a must. Snow falls average was about four feet in depth not accumulation, and sometimes deeper. Winters in the area start in Oct/Nov and last until March with temperatures that could, and still do, dip down to -20°F. </div>
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They didn't call it a 'bio stove', it was a wood-burning cookstove, and almost everyone had one. It was common practice to have also have another fireplace or wood stove in the house that was dedicated for heating purposes only. They could stay warm in their homes and they could eat, this allowed them to not just survive but thrive.</div>
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A good strawberry patch, planted with a variety well suited to your climate, will last for years and years. This is a picture of a strawberry patch which has long since gone wild and has completely taken over the area outside of the main cabin. Strawberries are a dependable producer of great tasting fruit, they are perennial so will come back year after year with minimal maintenance when compared to a vegetable garden. </div>
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Not only do strawberries provide great flavor they also provide needed sugar and carbohydrates <i>(when you work hard all day, everyday, you need carbs)</i>, B vitamins, vitamin C <i>(which is important in the prevention of scurvy)</i>, and folate. Strawberries are relatively easy to preserve, they can be dried, canned and made into jellies and jams. Strawberries can also be used to make a nice fruit wine.</div>
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Raspberry patch gone wild. Raspberries are a hardy plant that will return year after year after year without being replanted. If left completely unattended both strawberries and raspberries will revert back to the their 'wild' state in only a couple of generations which is s testament to their resilience This is one such patch. Raspberries like strawberries are a low maintenance source of dependable flavorful food. Low maintenance means the folks who homesteaded here didn't have to devote a large amounts of time tending to the plants in order to get a nice harvest. The bushes survived the harsh winters, dry summers, and reproduced on their own. </div>
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Raspberries are tad time consuming to harvest but in return they give people needed carbohydrates, B vitamins and vitamin C. They are also easy to preserve through dehydrating, and make great perseveres and syrups. They can also be combined with other fruit to make a nice fruit wine.</div>
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Every single homestead I have ever been to, has a rhubarb plant, or two, or more. The homestead on our property is no exception <i>(as pictured above)</i>. I know this because the plants are still growing there next to the long forgotten falling down buildings. Happily doing their thing even though no one has picked from them in decades. Why did they all grow rhubarb? </div>
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Rhubarb is a hardy plant and it will outlast you. It produces long thick stocks that are tart in flavor it is usually combined with plenty of sugar to make pies, jams, and desserts. It can also be made into a nice wine with a little know how <i>(there is a trick to it)</i>. What most people don't know is that Rhubarb also contains glycosides especially rhein, glucorhein and emodin which impart cathartic and laxative activities to it. It is hence useful as a cathartic in case of constipation. </div>
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That's right, it's a laxative - and that was perhaps the original draw of the plant long before humans started eating the stalks for flavor. The properties are concentrated in the roots which can be dried, powered and taken orally. The stalks can be periodically consumed as a more gentle dietary aid. Rhubarb leaves contain poisonous substances however, including oxalic acid which is a nephrotoxic and corrosive acid that is present in many plants but in higher concentrations in rhubarb, so it's best to dispose of the leaves when the rest of the plant has been processed. </div>
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<b>Apple Trees</b> can and should be included on this list of fruit homesteaders always kept. Unfortunately my pictures of the old apple trees didn't make it home with me, the memory card was damaged. Every homestead I have ever visited has also had its own apple orchard. It is another dependable source of low maintenance food each fall. Apples have many uses, you can make pectin from them, and they are easy to preserve. </div>
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Almost every homestead I have ever explored has had a true root cellar. Root cellars, while they are a pain to build, would insure your ability to store the food you have worked so hard to grow and harvest all year long. They keep food cool in the summer and keep it from freezing in the winter all without electricity. Lots of produce, root veggies, potatoes and squash store wonderfully all winter long in a root cellar. </div>
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One of the things I am always struck by when I spend time at old homesteads is how functional everything is. It's rarely <i>cute</i> and it's not <i>fancy</i> - but it works. This doesn't mean there was no craftsmanship, it just means that a higher priority was placed on items that were easy to use, had many uses and that held up over the test of time. Whether it's a wood working tool hung on the side of the house or a kitchen pan. It was simple and it worked.</div>
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This attitude carried through to everything they did, cooking, building, sewing, etc... what other people thought didn't matter so much, <i>what mattered is that it was done</i>. The clothing fit, the food was stored and it was not going to make anyone sick. It was a different world where the time you spent on a task effected your chances at survival, more value was placed on getting things done than making them look nice.<br />
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These settlers and homesteaders were people who took a chance and rolled the dice. They moved out into an unsettled wilderness. The didn't go to live '<i>sustainably</i>' or <i>to make everything themselves</i> - they went because the promise of making a life for themselves out in the unknown was better than what they were leaving behind. </div>
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Not only was life and death a fact they dealt with on an everyday bases while hunting and with their own animals, but it was a fact they dealt with in their own family. It was a hard life, at this particular location the original family lost one child, a son, to dysentery another child a year later, to fever. They buried their own children on the land - their graves are still marked.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><em><strong>Have you ever wanted to sit down and enjoy a good movie that has a little to do with prepping or surviving?</strong></em></span></div>
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Me too, but there is never a "Preparedness", "Survival", or "Reasons to Prepare" category in the movie sections so finding new movies that peak my interest can be difficult. Therefore I present to you, <strong>The Great Prepper Movie List! </strong>There is a section for family appropriate movies but please consult the ratings and reviews of a movie before turning it on with the kids.</div>
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A lot of the older movies and documentaries on this list can be found on Netflix and/or YouTube, those are good places to look as well. <em>Please note - due the nature of what we prepare for, outside of the family category, some of the movies on these lists are exceedingly violent in nature. I have linked the movies to Amazon or Wikipedia where ever possible, please read about the movie before you get it. Check the synopsis, ratings and reviews prior to viewing or purchasing especially if you are sensitive to certain types of violent situations.</em></div>
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Click on the listed Movies below to read more about them. Each one is linked to a purchasing source and/or more information.</div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><strong>- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000IQW8/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=beingst-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00000IQW8" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Trigger Effect</span></a><br />- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002V7OI8/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=beingst-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0002V7OI8" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Deep Impact</span></a><br />- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00173B5VM/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=beingst-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00173B5VM" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Panic in the Year Zero</span></a><br />- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006DX4PXQ/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B006DX4PXQ&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Contagion</span></a><br />- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0055CP9SQ/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=beingst-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0055CP9SQ" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Phase 7</span></a><br />- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000N6TX1I/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=beingst-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000N6TX1I" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Children of Men</span></a><br />- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001DZOC6Y/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=beingst-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001DZOC6Y" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Happening</span></a><br />- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008RTF3J4/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=beingst-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B008RTF3J4" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Red Dawn</span></a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dawn_(2012_film)" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">new movie</span></a> - <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008RTF3J4/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=beingst-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B008RTF3J4" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">original movie</span></a>)<br />- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005O06W/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=beingst-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00005O06W" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Invasion USA</span></a><br />- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0001WTVUW/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0001WTVUW&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Day After</span></a><br />- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004U409/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=beingst-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00004U409" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Threads</span></a><br />- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006HGXGWU/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=beingst-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B006HGXGWU" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Take Shelter</span></a><br />- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002ABURA/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=beingst-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0002ABURA" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Dawn of the Dead</span></a> (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002ABURA/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=beingst-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0002ABURA" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">new movie</span></a> - <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002IQNAG/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=beingst-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0002IQNAG" style="color: #1a00ff; 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<span style="color: blue;"><strong>- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001GCUO02/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=beingst-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001GCUO02" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Knowing</span></a></strong></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><strong>- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001OQCV2E/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=beingst-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001OQCV2E" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">2012</span></a></strong></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><strong>- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000VDDWE2/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000VDDWE2&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Day After Tomorrow</span></a></strong></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><strong>- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001THAS5K/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=beingst-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001THAS5K" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Day the Earth Stood Still</span></a></strong></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><strong>- <span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005JNTI/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00005JNTI&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">War of the Worlds</a></span></strong></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><strong><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00170I7LG/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00170I7LG&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">- When Worlds Collide</a></span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Post 'TEOTWAWKI' Movies </strong></span></span><span style="color: navy;">(why we stock more than three days of food movies)</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><strong>- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001993Y4K/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001993Y4K&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Postman</span></a></strong></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><strong>- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0013FBS20/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0013FBS20&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">I AM Legend</span></a></strong></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><strong>- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001FB563E/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001FB563E&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Road</span></a></strong></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><strong>- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002ZG997C/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=beingst-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B002ZG997C" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Book of Eli</span></a></strong></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><strong>- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0092G1O8A/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=beingst-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0092G1O8A" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Hunger Games</span></a></strong></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><strong>- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005R2IS/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=beingst-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00005R2IS" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Mad Max</span></a></strong></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><strong>- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001DTWX1G/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=beingst-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001DTWX1G" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">20 Years After</span></a></strong></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><strong>- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0783219857/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=beingst-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0783219857" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Water World</span></a></strong></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><strong>- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002SJIO4A/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=beingst-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B002SJIO4A" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">District 9</span></a></strong></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><strong>- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0047WNLJO/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0047WNLJO&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Babylon AD</span></a></strong></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><strong>- <span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000L212HW/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000L212HW&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Reign of Fire</a></span></strong></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><strong><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://americanpreppersnetwork.com/www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0051CSIKQ/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0051CSIKQ&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">- Stake Land</a></span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><strong>- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005V9IJ/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00005V9IJ&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Cast Away</span></a><br />- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AEFYCDW/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00AEFYCDW&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Into the Wild</span></a><br />- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0041KKYDI/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=beingst-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0041KKYDI" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">127 Hours</span></a><br />- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000065V40/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=beingst-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000065V40" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Alive</span></a><br />- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000AQVLF/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0000AQVLF&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Lord of the Flies</span></a><br />- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0038Z5SEW/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0038Z5SEW&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Edge</span></a><br />- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00064LJVE/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=beingst-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00064LJVE" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Village</span></a><br />- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000W1SZBS/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=beingst-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000W1SZBS" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Jeremiah Johnson</span></a><br />- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0767817745/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=beingst-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0767817745" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Sniper</span></a><br />- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004C45AZU/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=beingst-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B004C45AZU" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Way Back</span></a><br />- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004SUDQ8Q/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=beingst-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B004SUDQ8Q" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Rabbit-Proof Fence</span></a><br />- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001E8V6GO/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001E8V6GO&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Rescue Dawn</span></a><br />- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00003CXAF/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=beingst-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00003CXAF" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Quest for Fire</span></a><br />- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000A7W16/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=beingst-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0000A7W16" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Endurance</span></a><br />- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007UDC80/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=beingst-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0007UDC80" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Snow Walker</span></a><br />- <span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002Q9VP7A/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=beingst-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B002Q9VP7A" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The Donner Party</a></span></strong></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0001I55Y2/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0001I55Y2&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">- Never Cry Wolf</span></a><br />- <span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000633R5/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0000633R5&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Behind Enemy Lines</a></span></strong></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000633R5/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0000633R5&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">- </span></a><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000633R5/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0000633R5&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Survivors</span></a><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005LAIIS0/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B005LAIIS0&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><br /><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;">- The Grey</span></a></strong></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_White" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">- Into the White</span></a></strong></span><span style="color: #cc99ff;"><strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0004Z33EG/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0004Z33EG&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><br /><span style="color: #cc99ff;"></span></a></strong></span><span style="color: blue;"><strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0783222149/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0783222149&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">- The River Wild</span></a></strong></span><span style="color: blue;"><strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0004Z33EG/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0004Z33EG&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><br /><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;">- Rambo First Blood</span></a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003TNS3HW/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B003TNS3HW&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">- Seven Alone</span></a><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000633U5/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0000633U5&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">- White Fang</span></a><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000065U2U/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000065U2U&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">- Stranded</span></a><br />- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001M72J0O/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=beingst-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001M72J0O" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">City of Ember </span></a><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002J58K6/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0002J58K6&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">- Grizzly Mountain </span></a><br />- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008WAM2DI/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B008WAM2DI&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Grizzly Adams</span></a> (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008WAM2DI/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B008WAM2DI&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Season One</span></a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00A4F59XY/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00A4F59XY&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Two</span></a>)</strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004M9QNR4/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B004M9QNR4&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">- After Armageddon</span></a></strong></span><span style="color: black;"><strong>:</strong> <span style="font-size: 12px;">Highly acclaimed docudrama about a runaway flu pandemic has swept the nation and killed a large part of the population, one family must learn to survive to make it to a safe haven. A couple of 'doomsday preppers' are featured in this special.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004FN26X2/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B004FN26X2&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">- Yukon Passage:</span></a> </strong></span><span style="font-size: 12px;">Older documentary of four young men retracing the foot steps of gold stampedes through the Yukon Territory surviving off of minimal supplies and the natural world around them. </span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003CJXJ8Q/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B003CJXJ8Q&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">- Collapse (Michael Ruppert):</span></a> </span></strong><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;">Documentary about a former Los Angeles police officer, author, investigative reporter and radical thinker. He is interviewed about his beliefs that unsustainable energy and financial policies have led to an ongoing collapse of modern industrial civilization.</span></span><br />
<strong><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003Q7B77O/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B003Q7B77O&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">- Collapse (Nat GEO):</span></a> </span></strong><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;">Docudrama on how societies succeed or fail and how our own society may fail.</span></span><br />
<strong><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002M36R46/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B002M36R46&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">- Earth 2100:</span></a> </span></strong><span style="color: black; font-size: 12px;">Docudrama, a future look at our planet and society through the life of Lucy, and the input of experts. Good quality and chilling reality. </span><br />
<strong><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOMWzjrRiBg" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">- There is No Tomorrow:</span></a> </span></strong><span style="color: black; font-size: 12px;">A fantastic 34 minute animated youtube documentary on how our "growth based" society is unsustainable even with 'green energy' and the future we will face. Full of facts; author unknown.</span><br />
<strong><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005MKSR3U/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B005MKSR3U&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">- When Aliens Attack:</span></a> </span></strong><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;">Well done docudrama on the theory of a future alien attack and what human society could actually do about it.</span></span><br />
<strong><span style="color: blue;"></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOAGeDsPGcg" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">- Aftermath: World Without Oil:</span></a></span><span style="color: blue;"> </span></strong><span style="color: black; font-size: 12px;">A docudrama that poses the question "what if the world ran out of oil?" and theorizes about what would happen. There is a you tube link here as I have not found an available DVD.</span><br />
<strong><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0018TN72U/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0018TN72U&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">- Aftermath: Population Zero:</span></a> </span></strong><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;">A docudrama that poses the question "what if all humans disappeared" and follows what would happen to the planet, our homes, structures, and pets...</span></span><br />
<strong><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZIdSlYXHlM" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">- Evacuate Earth:</span></a> </span></strong><span style="color: black; font-size: 12px;">A fascinating docudrama that theorizes how we would evacuate the earth in the face of impending doom, and how society would react. There is a you tube link here as I have not found an available DVD.</span><br />
<strong><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001QA6HAA/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001QA6HAA&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">- Super-Volcano:</span></a> </span></strong><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">A highly acclaimed </span></span><span style="color: black;">docudrama on what would happen if the Yellowstone super-volcano erupted.</span><span style="color: blue;"> </span></span><br />
<strong><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIr6nfwpctA" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">- Perfect Disaster: Anatomy of a Solar Storm:</span></a> </span></strong><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;">Docudrama that theorizes what might happen to our civilization and technology if we are hit by a massive solar storm. This is part 1 of 5 all parts featured on you tube as I could not find an available DVD.</span></span><br />
<strong><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWg6NWjTLCU" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">- Apocalypse Man:</span></a> </span></strong><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;">History Channel special hosted by former U.S. Marine and martial-artist Rudy Reyes on how to survive the aftermath of "TEOTWAWKI" in an urban setting. This is a youtube link, as there was no available DVD.</span></span><br />
<strong><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000MZGN5Y/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000MZGN5Y&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">- American Experience: Surviving the Dust Bowl:</span></a> </span></strong><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">Highly acclaimed </span></span><span style="color: black;">documentary about the American Dust Bowl and how they survived it.</span></span><br />
<strong><span style="color: blue;"></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000EOTEM2/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000EOTEM2&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">- American Experience: Influenza 1918:</span></a></span> </strong><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;">Documentary about how America was ravaged by the flu epidemic of 1918 that killed 675,000 people--more than died in all the wars of this century combined--before disappearing as mysteriously as it began.</span></span><br />
<strong><span style="color: blue;">- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002Q5O6Y8/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B002Q5O6Y8&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">American Experience: The Crash of 1929:</span></a> </span></strong><span style="color: black; font-size: 12px;">A documentary about the start of the Great Depression and what it meant to America.</span><br />
<strong><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003Z88IRQ/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B003Z88IRQ&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">- </span></a><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003Z88IRQ/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B003Z88IRQ&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Day After Disaster:</span></a> </span></strong><span style="color: black; font-size: 12px;">A docudrama about what would happen if a nuclear bomb exploded in the heart of Washington, D.C.<br /><span style="color: blue; font-size: 14px;"><strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008CTI7QK/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B008CTI7QK&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">- Training for the Apocalypse:</span></a> </strong><span style="color: black; font-size: 12px;">A History Channel special about the personal stories of two men and what prompted them to prepare.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0085Z6ZHE/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0085Z6ZHE&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">- Monumental: In Search of America's National Treasure</span></a>:</span></strong></span></span><span style="color: blue; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><strong> </strong></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12px;">Highly acclaimed documentary about America's beginnings and how that relates to where we are headed now.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003DZ1UI0/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B003DZ1UI0&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="clear: right; color: #1a00ff; float: right; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" border="0" class="alignright" height="160" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=B003DZ1UI0&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=beingst-20" style="border: 0px; margin: 7px; padding: 0px;" width="113" /></a><span style="color: blue;"><strong><strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002T04NDE/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B002T04NDE&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">- The Best Defense:</span></a></strong></strong></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><span style="color: maroon;"> </span></strong></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12px;">An excellent current Outdoor Channel educational series teaching self-defense through knowledge, skill, practice, and emergency preparedness. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><strong><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004X7VRG2/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B004X7VRG2&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">- </span></a></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004X7VRG2/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B004X7VRG2&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Dual Survival:</span></a></span></strong> <span style="font-size: 12px;">Current </span><span style="font-size: 12px;">Discovery Channel TV series featuring survivalist instructor Cody Lundin and his partner as place themselves in various locations to demonstrate how to get home alive.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0089BSOM8/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0089BSOM8&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">- Doomsday Preppers:</span></a></span></strong></span><span style="font-size: 12px;"> Part of Nat GEO's current 'American Outliers' group of shows featuring preppers from around the country.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><strong><a href="http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/other-shows/videos/doomsday-bunkers-homemade-water-filtration.htm" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">- Doomsday Bunkers:</span></a></strong></span> <span style="font-size: 12px;">Discovery Channel Series focusing on a company that builds bunkers for those who prepare.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://americanpreppersnetwork.com/2012/02/meet-the-preppers-my-pink-pistol.html" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">- Meet the Preppers</span></a>:</span></strong> <span style="font-size: 12px;">APN's own Phil Burns goes into depth on prepping with his family in this Animal Planet special. </span></div>
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<strong style="color: blue;">- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001715A92/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001715A92&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Jericho</span></a>:</strong><span style="color: blue;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12px;">A CBS fictional series about a small town's efforts to survive following a national terrorist attack and the collapse of the United States. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000O7862S/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000O7862S&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">- Survivorman:</span></a></strong></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"> Discovery Channel series, </span><span style="font-size: 12px;">survival expert Les Stroud strands himself in the wilderness for days on end in order to demonstrate how to survive and get home</span>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004WO9OR0/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B004WO9OR0&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">- Man, Woman, Wild:</span></a></strong></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12px;"> Current </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12px;">Discover Channel series featuring special forces survival expert, Mykle Hawke, and his wife Ruth as they strand themselves in random locations to demonstrate how to get along, survive, and get home alive.</span></span></div>
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<strong style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.walmart.com/ip/21963459?adid=22222222227015861401&wmlspartner=wlpa&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=&wl3=21486607510&wl4=&wl5=pla&veh=sem&adid=22222222227000000000&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=&wl3=21486607510&wl4=&wl5=pla&veh=sem" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">- Alaska The Last Frontier</span></a>: </strong><span style="color: black; font-size: 12px;">A fantastic Discovery Channel series about the Kilcher family and their homesteading off-grid way of life in Alaska. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_(TV_series)" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">- Revolution:</span></a> </strong></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12px;">NBC's current post apocalyptic science fiction drama series that follows a group of people who are trying figure out how to turn the power back on, after losing planet wide electricity 15 years earlier.</span></div>
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<strong style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0049P1VHS/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0049P1VHS&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">- The Walking Dead:</span></a> </strong><span style="color: black; font-size: 12px;">A current AMC original fiction horror series about a</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;"> zombie virus has infected most of the human population, those left fighting to survive battle the zombies and themselves. </span></span></div>
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<strong style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001V9K8JC/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001V9K8JC&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">- Life After People</span></a>: </strong><span style="color: black; font-size: 12px;">A History Channel series spin-off from their 'Aftermath: Population Zero' docudrama. See what happens to the cities and the structures we built after humans are not around to maintain them any longer. As a side note this series does cover some interesting information on the fate of un-maintained nuclear facilities and dams. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004IJ750C/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B004IJ750C&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">- The Colony</span></a>:</strong></span><span style="color: blue;"> <span style="color: black; font-size: 12px;">A Discovery Channel series that is a reality hybrid show that challenges 24 very different people, to rebuild their own civilization in a post-apocalyptic world created for them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001GCVJTM/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001GCVJTM&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">- The Alaska Experiment:</span></a></strong></span><span style="color: blue;"> <span style="color: black; font-size: 12px;">Discovery Channel reality series, four teams of urbanites attempt to survive the wilds of Alaska for 3 months.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPbz5TDy6fs" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">- Alone in the Wild</span></a>: </strong></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12px;">A three-part series featuring extreme photographer, Ed Wardle, as he is dropped off in the middle of the wilderness and attempts to survive three solo months. Link to you tube provided as I could find no available DVD.</span></div>
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<strong style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0038MUZCA/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0038MUZCA&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">- Survivors</span></a>:</strong><span style="color: blue;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12px;">A British sci-fi drama about a plague of global proportions. Anarchy in the streets. The collapse of government and the rule of law--perhaps even the end of civilization itself, followed by the rise of tyranny and vigilantism. </span></div>
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<strong style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002HFWAKE/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B002HFWAKE&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">- Out of the Wild:</span></a></strong><span style="color: blue;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12px;">Nine ordinary people are given a three-day crash course in survival, then are dropped off in the depths of the rugged Alaska wilderness with minimal equipment and map to make it back to civilization.</span></div>
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<strong style="color: black;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.history.com/shows/countdown-to-apocalypse/videos/prophets-of-doom#prophets-of-doom" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">- 2012: Countdown to Armageddon</span></a>:</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12px;">A five-part History Channel series which covers many different views of how the world will end. It features several different preppers in the series including APN's own CEO, Hugh Vail. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000QFAFRC/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000QFAFRC&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">- I Shouldn't Be Alive</span></a>:</strong></span><span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-size: 12px;">An extremely well made and highly acclaimed series by the Animal Planet of harrowing reenacted survival stories from around the world. This is linked to one season, but there are 5 others available. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><strong>- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00009QG5O/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00009QG5O&linkCode=as2&tag=beingst-20" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Little House on the Prairie:</span></a></strong></span><span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-size: 12px;">An American pioneer drama series about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, MI. Based on Laura Ingalls Wilder's <em>Little House Books. </em>The family appropriate show ran for nine seasons from 1974-1982, all seasons have been released to DVD.</span></span></div>
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<em>As preppers, it's important to remember that movies and TV shows are for entertainment purposes ONLY. Just because a hollywood director thinks modern society is going to end up like a scene from "The Road" after any given prolonged disaster doesn't mean it's really going to happen that way. Please don't base your urgency, plans, or preps on movies or TV shows, instead base them on careful research and common sense.</em></div>
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Do you know of a good movie that folks may enjoy, but it's not on the list? Add it to the comments section below to share it with everyone else.</div>
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