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Getting Started in Gardening: Containers
Potatoes in 5-gallon buckets Are you tired of paying $4.00 a pound for a hard tomato that has no flavor? Do you suspect it was picked months ago, kept in cold storage and fed some kind of gas to keep...
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Make Your Own Window Cleaner
Having a clean house can be expensive! Add up the bathroom, kitchen, windows, floors, and laundry…and before you know it, you have spent $50 just for the “privilege” of doing housework! Frugal...
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Prepping on a Shoestring: Storing Flour
Storing Flour In a long-term crisis situation, there are certain food staples that every prepper needs to have on hand. Among these is flour, or grains to grind into flour, as needed. In an ideal...
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Jump Starting Seedlings on a Shoestring
Here in Zone 8b, backyard gardeners often get the itch to grow vegetables as early as late January. Our average date of last frost is mid-March, and our garden centers offer seeds, peat pellets, and...
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A Dollar Store Solar Cooker
<Edited by Dave> Once the prepping bug bites, it isn’t long before “going completely off grid” becomes a dream, if not a goal. Serious research begins, and soon the realization hits that solar...
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Fruit Leather, A Comparison of Methods
Fruit leather, known at the grocery store as Fruit Rolls or Fruit Roll-Ups, is a wonderful way to preserve juicy, flavorful produce, and kids of all ages love it! “Back in the day”, leather was...
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Somewhere in the middle of winter just passed, I realized that my motivation to can had disappeared. Since I started canning three years ago, I have built a pantry of more than 2000 jars. I have...
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Whispers at the Clotheslines – Why I Started Prepping
Because I live a frugal life, and because I live in a temperate climate, I hang clothes on the line to dry pretty much year-round. So it was that 13 months after Barack Obama was inaugurated I was...
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