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Posted on 03/23/2008 11:36:40 PM PDT by nw_arizona_granny
Americans finding soaring food prices hard to stomach can battle back by growing their own food. [Click image for a larger version] Dean Fosdick Dean Fosdick
Home vegetable gardens appear to be booming as a result of the twin movements to eat local and pinch pennies.
At the Southeastern Flower Show in Atlanta this winter, D. Landreth Seed Co. of New Freedom, Pa., sold three to four times more seed packets than last year, says Barb Melera, president. "This is the first time I've ever heard people say, 'I can grow this more cheaply than I can buy it in the supermarket.' That's a 180-degree turn from the norm."
Roger Doiron, a gardener and fresh-food advocate from Scarborough, Maine, said he turned $85 worth of seeds into more than six months of vegetables for his family of five.
A year later, he says, the family still had "several quarts of tomato sauce, bags of mixed vegetables and ice-cube trays of pesto in the freezer; 20 heads of garlic, a five-gallon crock of sauerkraut, more homegrown hot-pepper sauce than one family could comfortably eat in a year and three sorts of squash, which we make into soups, stews and bread."
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She compares the current period of market uncertainty with that of the early- to mid-20th century when the concept of victory gardens became popular.
"A lot of companies during the world wars and the Great Depression era encouraged vegetable gardening as a way of addressing layoffs, reduced wages and such," she says. "Some companies, like U.S. Steel, made gardens available at the workplace. Railroads provided easements they'd rent to employees and others for gardening."
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Homemade Liquid Hand Soap - Recipe
Posted By TipNut On September 12, 2008 @ 6:37 am In Beauty & Health | 17 Comments
Picture of Liquid Hand Soap - Tipnut.comIngredients
1 bar soap (6 oz)
1 TBS honey
1 tsp glycerin
water
Directions
* Grate bar of soap into small flakes, pour in blender.
* Add 1 cup boiling water and whip.
* Add 1/2 cup room temperature water and stir in blender.
* Add honey and glycerin, stir.
* Allow mix to cool (15 minutes) then whip again.
* Mixture should be 2 cups at this point. Top with cool water until mixture measures between 5 and 6 cups, whip.
* Pour into containers and allow to cool (do not put lids or caps on yet).
* After an hour, close containers. Soap mixture will thicken up.
* Shake before using as needed.
Optional: You can make this with herb infused water, just strain before using.
Source: Adapted from Pearls of Country Wisdom by Debora S. Tukua
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where can I get glycerin at?
you can get glyceryn in several you might want to try where they sell bakery products, caldor, home depot, and many others it is used for many things, you can also get it in most super markets, /just don’t go the Tyler Durden way :P)
I do have a question does this soap keep it’s gooey properties or do I have to shake it every time I want to get soap? does the soap mixture separate from the water after some time?
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TipNut
15 Sep 2008 at 9:16 am
Hi Juan, it will need to be shaken up occasionally, not every time though. Thanks for the list of places to pick up glycerin, I get it at the drug store or grocery store.
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I’d say, just use green tea instead of plain water in the recipe.
[I would use peppermint or spearmint tea for the water...
granny]
How To Get Rid of Moths With Natural Repellents
Posted By TipNut On February 13, 2007 @ 9:40 am In Homemade Cleaners, Household | 1 Comment
Picture of Moth - Tipnut.comMothballs are made from [1] paradichlorobenzene and can cause all kinds of health problems including damage to liver and kidneys. They’re especially [2] hazardous to children if swallowed–and they don’t smell all that good either.
Here are a few ideas for alternative, natural moth repellents:
* Dried lavender
* Cloves (see [3] How To Make A Clove Apple)
* Rosemary
* Mint
* Thyme
* Cinnamon sticks
* Eucalyptus
* Peppercorns
* Dried lemon peel
* Cedar (chips, balls, planks or essential oil–cedar lined closets, drawers or trunks)
You can make sachets to stash in drawers, trunks or hang in closets out of pretty cotton fabrics, plain cheesecloth, muslin, linen or clean nylons (knee highs or cut pantyhose).
Moth Repellent Sachet Recipes:
* 50/50 rosemary and mint
* 1 part dried lavender, 1 part rosemary, 1/2 part dried lemon peel, 1 TBS cloves
* 1 part whole cloves, 1 part whole peppercorns, 2 - 4 cinnamon sticks broken in pieces
* 1 part dried lavender, 1 part dried lemon peel, 1 broken cinnamon stick
* 1 part cedar shavings, 1 part thyme
* 1 part peppermint, 1 part spearmint, 1 part rosemary, 1/2 part thyme
You can mix and match your own recipes, or just use 100% one ingredient if you like. Replace sachets with fresh ones annually. The stronger the fragrance, the better it repels moths.
To help protect your clothes and linens from the attention of moths, make sure items are laundered and clean before storing away. It also helps to seal items in plastic if possible.
If you know moths have discovered your storage area, kill larvae by dry cleaning, freezing cloth items for a few days or wash then tumble in the dryer on high heat (if possible). Clean the storage area thoroughly before using again.
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[1] paradichlorobenzene: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradichlorobenzene
[2] hazardous to children: http://www.purdue.edu/dp/envirosoft/housewaste/house/mothball.htm
[3] How To Make A Clove Apple): http://tipnut.com/how-to-make-a-clove-apple/
Bugs-Be-Gone Bags
Posted By TipNut On February 8, 2008 @ 6:47 am In Crafty Ideas, Household, Sewing | 4 Comments
Picture Of Lavender Envelope [thegivingflower.de] - Tipnut.comMaterials Needed
Rosemary
Lavender Buds
Thyme
Lemongrass
Peppermint
Tansy
Cedar Chips
Cheesecloth, Muslin drawstring bags or fabric envelopes (free pattern download below)
Directions
* Fill small drawstring bags to hold between 1/4 cup and 1/2 cup of the herb mixture.
* Place bags in your pantry, closets, drawers, chests, under beds, hang in kitchen windows. You could also place the herbs in open, decorative bowls and place them in rooms.
* Roughly scrunch the bags periodically to help release their smells.
* Refill bags once they are no longer effective or hold no aroma.
The herb mixture helps to naturally deter and repel bugs and pests from the places you have stored the bags.
The picture above is from a free pattern for making pretty fabric envelopes to hold your lavender and herbs in, perfect for this purpose! You can find the [1] pattern here (pdf), source: [2] The Giving Flower.
Here are some more herbal home helpers offered on Tipnut: [3] Homemade Herbal Lavender Dryer Bags, [4] Homemade Herbal Sleep Pouches and [5] How To Get Rid of Moths With Natural Repellents.
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URLs in this post:
[1] pattern here: http://www.thegivingflower.de/patterns/Lavender%20Envelope%202.pdf
[2] The Giving Flower: http://thegivingflower.de/
[3] Homemade Herbal Lavender Dryer Bags: http://tipnut.com/homemade-herbal-lavender-dryer-bags/
[4] Homemade Herbal Sleep Pouches: http://tipnut.com/homemade-herbal-sleep-pouches/
[5] How To Get Rid of Moths With Natural Repellents: http://tipnut.com/how-to-get-rid-of-moths-with-natural-repellents/
Yorkie, I think that many of the simple cures will work, some better than the drugstore.
I don’t doubt that it helped, the indians used the flowers and fruits of the cactus plants for many things.
Some think the Ocotillo flower as a tea is healthy, and I think it must be, if for no other reason than the fact that it does not flower every year and something that God sends only after he has blessed it with rain, has to be good for you.....
If you had picked younger dandelion leaves they would not be so bitter, or even boiled for a minute and that will take the bitterness out.
One of my favorite greens is the common pigweed, steam it and a dash of butter and it is good.
There has been talk of the Prickly Pad cactus being used to balance folks with diabetes.
For years I read about eating wild foods, LOL, then moved to the desert and have very few of them.
The desert at De Anza is different from this in northern Arizona.
I owned property out of Ocotillo, Calif, one of my property lines was the De Anza Borrego State Park, LOL, we used it for weekends when we lived in San Diego, in the 1960’s.
About 1968, that desert was like you say, you could not walk with out stepping on a plant.
Some were 3 inches high and had daisy like flowers on them, a solid carpet of them, I pressed a bunch for craft work and root and all they were less than 6 inches.
But the desert is like than only every 20 or 30 years.
The amazing thing is that the roots and seeds lie there dormant all those years and then suddenly God says ‘bloom’ and they do.
I have not seen a Humming bird here in years.
I grew up in Otay, south of National City...LOL.
Our worlds are so much smaller than we think they are.
You may live in the most beautiful country in the world, but it snows.
I can’t watch videos on dial up, but yes, you did find an oasis in the desert, it always amazed me to find natural springs in the middle of the desert.
We found a waterfall once, near Wickenburg, Arizona, in the middle of no where, suddenly a small stream and then the beautiful waterfall.
We got out to check the rocks and play in the water, but didn’t stay, when the giant Javalinas started out of the cave that was behind the waterfall....[they are wild pig family].
“You may live in the most beautiful country in the world, but it snows.”
*Snow Ice Cream
*Riding my snowmobile
*Riding in the Snow plow and digging neighbors out
*Snowshoeing
*Sledding down the biggest hill you can imagine
*Cross country Skiing
*Downhill Skiing
*Snowboarding
*Snow Angels
*Snowball fights
*Bunny boots (They’re cute!)
*Feeding/watching winter birds against the snow; Cardinals, Chickadees, Blue Jays, etc.
*Building a Snowman
*Easy tracking of prey in the snow (Hunting)
*Hot Chocolate w/ Peppermint Schnaaps
*Appreciating what “warm & dry” REALLY means once you come back into the house!
I LOVE SNOW! :)
Laughing.
And thinking of all those heavy clothes that are required, while having fun.
If I was young, your list of fun would be more interesting.
My idea of dressing up, is wearing shoes.
God created both your country and the desert, so we could all be happy.
There is beauty in both.
And if you substitute sand for snow, there are lots of the same fun things that can be done.
I have slid down mountains a couple times, it did not require a snow sled.
One loose rock and the next thing you know, you are at the bottom.
Super busy with the election/Family and all the stuff the Good Lord throws my way! Great to see You are still posting this! Solid Gold! Speaking of which, yes, the market is going to splash big time. Keep some extra cash under your mattress, I see Bank Runs in the not to far future.
no one can tell animal stories like you do.
1. Holy Cow Cake
Posted by: “Vergie”
Holy Cow Cake
1 box (18.25 oz) German Chocolate cake mix
1 squirt jar of caramel sauce
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 large container cool whip
2 or 3 miniature Butterfinger candy bars (crushed)
Prepare & bake cake according to directions. Punch holes in the hot
cake with a wooden pick. Pour sweetened milk over cake. Drizzle caramel
topping over cake and then refrigerate for at least a couple of hours.
Spread Cool Whip over cake and sprinkle crushed candy bars on top.
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Good to hear from you, but best of all is knowing that you are ok.
Yes, there will be runs on banks and people have no conception of the fear that goes into waiting in the line, to see if you can get your money or is it gone forever.
A friend walked me through her experience in 1929, they were farming in Wellton, Arizona, picking cotton, with a field full of cotton pickers, which they needed to get money from the bank to pay the cotton pickers cash was the only way to pay them.
A part broke, so they had to go 40 miles to Yuma, an all day trip in the Model A.
The part cost 5 cents.
Jay went to the hardware store, next door to the bank as the store would close before the bank did.
5 minutes later, they reached the bank, [maybe 40 foot from the store.
Jay reached for the door knob and found it locked and instantly a sign appeared in the window “This Bank is closed”.
The following year, a baby died, Mary had not had enough to eat and it never did well, they already had 5 children to feed and it reached the point of using the last of the flour and the last chicken had been killed for soup.......and a neighbor came and hired Jay to work for him, on Jay’s 26 Caterpillar, that is the smaller antique one, Mary still had it.
Jay worked all day for $1.00, and said prayers of thanks, never mind that he was a Williams and Mary College educated farm owner, $1.00 in real money fed babies.
From there they started recovery.
There they sat, I don’t recall the size of the farm in 1930, in 1970, she still had 160 acres of farm land. They had all the equipment to work it and no market to buy what they might have produced.
LOL, I still have her horse drawn cultivator, from the farm, before they got tractors with motors.
They had a few milk cows, but those were butchered or traded for food supplies.
The day before Jay got the work, they had gone to the government office to ask for help, just food, that is all they asked for.
The government told them no, not until they had eaten the cow......and her with 2 more babies born in the depression and all the kids needed milk.......
And that is what a real depression is like.
There is no money and there is no food.
OMG! I went into sugar shock just READING that ‘Holy Cow’ cake recipe, LOL!
What a wonderful photo.
I would bet it is a real one and the kittens are not the least concerned, one is even on its back.
Tena was not fully grown, but that is about what you saw when you looked at her.
Tena would carry them in her mouth and bring them to the front porch, so she could be sure we knew they were there.
With Tena, we were no longer bothered with door to door sales people, even the milk man stopped coming.
Tena was a naturally born protector.
I have a back that goes out, Bill had been in the German POW camp in WW2, with a Chiropractor, who taught him the basics.
One morning, when Tena was about 9 months old, my back was out and I asked Bill to put it in alignment, before he went to work.
I laid down on the bed, Bill straddled my back and worked his magic...
When my back snapped into place, I screamed.
And When Tena heard me yell in pain, she hit the bed and grabbed Bill by his shirt and tore him off me.........instantly.
Ripped the shirt off him too.
Keep in mind that never did Bill strike me or the kids.
I was the yell-er of the family, Bill was soft spoken.
From then on, all Bill had to do was raise his fist and shake it at me and Tena attacked him.........great game.
But her favorite game was when I would get off the couch, and she would join him in my place...........and we discovered that all Bill needed to say was “put her in the corner”, and Tena did.
Half a step, and she was willing to tear my jeans.
As far as I know, Tena never broke anyone’ s skin, in her games and she did love to attack.
Bill would growl at her and Tena growled back, it basically was a game that he did when there were small kids there, like Angela.
I was surprised one morning, when a man came, wanting to sell Bill a car, to hear Tena keep growling, as it wasn’t quite what we did with company there.
I walked into the living room, the man was in a free sitting arm chair.........and Tena was growling at him, pacing from one side of the chair to the other.........
Bill said she did it the entire time and he just let the man talk, to see what his game was..........a week later we knew the rest of the story.
The man was arrested, the car was stolen.
Bill made extra money, with his boss’s approval buying cars that still ran, and reselling them, not a lot but a few.
Bill managed an auto wrecking yard.
I always felt guilty that we did not give Tena to the Military to be really trained and used as she could have been, with her natural abilities.
OMG! I went into sugar shock just READING that ‘Holy Cow’ cake recipe, LOL!<<<
Surely you could have a tiny slice.
LOL...
My husband would have loved it.
Took me years to get the sugar out of his coffee and to convince him that a drizzle icing was enough for a cake.
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Hey ladies!
It is somewhat cooler here today. At least you don’t feel like you’re stepping into a sauna when you go outside. We dodged a hurricane two weeks ago. Here on the coast of NC, all we got out of it was wind and some salt burn, not much wind and not even any rain, altho the middle of the state nearly drowned. They needed rain, have been in drought conditions for a couple of years.
Pansies won’t be ready for another couple of weeks, and the first set may not make it if it stays hot. OTOH, they bloom all winter here, until about the end of May.
As for the stock market, I don’t have any cows. Oh, wait... LOL
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