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Since most of us are cooped up this time of year, I thought a thread on books, resources, websites and You Tube videos might be in order for some inspiration!

Please share your favorites concerning anything gardening and nature-related.

Only another month until I start the vegetable seedlings indoors for
the year's outdoor container garden. For now I can amuse myself by
perusing the seed catalogs and making plans.

The obligatory link to what I have in my prepping/homesteading library; https://permasteader.com/cloud/index.php/s/H8iLwmfLHiGFyjG

See the agriculture folder for gardening and other related downloads or simply download the ag folder (810 mb). Mostly pdf files. 435 files in the Gardening folder.

In ant folder, the ‘Download all files’ button will put the files in a zip folder for you to download. If you only want some items in a folder, tick the check boxes and click ‘Actions’ near the top left, then click download. You’ll need to scroll to the top to see ‘Actions’ and when you click download there, it will also put them all into one zip file for you. Happy Hunting.

Ground is frozen solid here in MO after having near zero temps.

Our two year old chinawalmart chest freezer crapped out so I put everything into two coolers and a tote on the foyer but it’s going to reach 40 today. Stuff in coolers should be ok but the tote, not so much. Most of the food was given to us by the wife’s co-worker, who along with her family, hit multiple food pantries on a regular basis. Some of it, we’d probably never eat. So that’s my chore today. Go through it all and pull out things we probably won’t eat and bring that to a neighbor to see if he wants it. If not, the wife’s going to have to take it to work and pitch it in the dumpster.

Wife knows what we do and don’t eat but couldn’t say no I guess.

I started with the two coolers so they got the not so cold stuff and the tote was everything from the bottom of the freezer and still frozen. So now the iffy stuff in the coolers needs to come out so that the known good stuff can go into the coolers, all while separating what we won’t eat. pita

Next time I buy a freezer, it won’t be a noname from walmart. I’ll head to Lowes and get a Frigidaire or something. It will still be made in china but hopefully with higher standards and there may even be parts available for it later on. I need to open this one up and take a peak and see if it’s anything obvious.