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Stopped and took a peek . # 10 cans butter powder $19.94 reg $42.99 .
Well with my water the only issue is clay . Do not a hard clean up. With mineral rich water I don't no but maybe use something like the molded silicon loaf pans to hold the water . They flex and should make cleanup easy.
On making the powdered buttermilk . No freeze dryer here. This is basiclly my version of an Amish corn dryer.
I take a chafin dish set put water in the deep pan and line the shallow pan with silicon cooking mats . Pour a gallon of buttermilk in the top pan and set this on the wood heater. The...
Have about 30 acres of mixed hardwood. When asked what I burned as firewood I told them what I prefer was a mix of oak and hickory but that what I actually burn is what ever is dead ,dying or blown down.
Managing the understory is just as important as the big trees .
First yes you can put your home canned goods in the same space but..... That space should not be that cold . Most things will want to be somewhere between 46 and 34 degrees.
If it's cold enough to freeze the canned goods it's cold enough to freeze to moister in the fruits and veggies.
Here's another book from one of my sources.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38606
The food section covers slugs and bugs as well as grains . I noted it listed the grains bone to flesh building quality as well as thing like with whole oat soaking for a few hours made them more desirable to the...
What you are basically wanting to do is step back in time to an era before commercial feeds. As such you need to step back in time to that era in your resources . Here's a link to poultry books from the 1850's thru the 1920's .
http://www.survivorlibrary.com/index.php/8-category/110-library-poultry
Just saw a announcement that McMurray hatchery want be shipping some of their chicks due to avian flu . They are having to destroy some of their breed lines and will need these chicks to repopulate their flocks.
Another way to look at shortages.
I do some volunteer work with a food giveaway ministery . We did 2 last week and one today . That covers 3 different county's . Today while talking with the leader he said that the Second Harvest warehouse is down to half its normal level on dry and can goods...