Friday morning Chuck and I made the short trip to Allen’s farm to pick blueberries. We bought a small chest freezer the day before and couldn’t wait to fill it with summer goodies we could enjoy all winter long. Chuck and I had never even seen a blueberry bush, much less picked them…so [...]
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Picking and freezing blueberries
Posted in food, garden, simple things, tagged blueberries, blueberry farm, freezing blueberries, picking blueberries, simple life on August 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Expanding the garden subsistence style
Posted in food, garden, simple things, vegetables, tagged double digging, garden, hand-tilling, handturning, new garden plot, preparing the soil, soil, subsistence farming on June 28, 2008 | 6 Comments »
You may have read about the problem we had with our raised beds — the mulch underneath the beds was holding water like a sponge making the beds too wet. We fixed that problem as much as we can, but decided to plant more crops around the perimeter of the garden. Then, we [...]
Soap-making in 4 easy steps
Posted in do-it-ourselves, projects, simple things, tagged clearly natural soaps, do-it-yourself, glycerin soap, melt and pour soap, soap, soapmaking, soapmaking at home on June 13, 2008 | 8 Comments »
We got tired of spending over $1-a-bar for soap several weeks ago, so we started looking around for ways to make soap at home. Most soapmaking was either dangerous — “lye can cause an explosion” — or too time-consuming — “let the soap cure for 30-days.” So, we kept looking until we found [...]
Reel mower and flame thrower
Posted in environment, garden, simple things, tagged burn weeds, flame thrower, garden torch, gas lawn equipment, handtools, reel mower, simple life, solar power, wendell berry on April 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
They came today. An odd combination of garden implements — a reel mower and a flame thrower. That’s right — flame thrower. My friends at Lehman’s feature a unique weed solution — a propane-powered weed-eating fire machine. Lehman’s calls it a garden torch, except you get the feeling that you’re holding [...]
The brush beats the can
Posted in simple things, tagged aerosol cans, classic shaving, lather, save money, save the earth, shave soap, shaving brush, sustainable lifestyle on April 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
You may remember my posts about my new Merkur “1904″ double-edge razor. Not only am I saving money, but I’m getting the shave of my life. Or so I thought until I added a real shaving brush and Col. Conk’s Lime Shave Soap. After switching razors from the Mach 3 Turbos [...]
One if by land
Posted in simple things, tagged alternative lighting, amish lantern, candles, dietz, homesteading, kerosene lantern, lantern, lehman's, power outage, simple things, sustainable life on March 3, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I noticed today that the Old North Church has gone modern, replacing the old lanterns with LED lights. Some things should never change, so if you hanker for the old lantern that Paul Revere used in the Old North Church (“one if by land, two if by sea”) to warn the colonists that the British [...]
Buck saw in action
Posted in simple things, tagged buck saw, chain saw, firewood, green tools, homesteading, lehman's, saws, self-sufficient, simple life, simple things, small town homestead, sustainable life, zero carbon emissions on February 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here I am with my new buck saw from Lehman’s. We have several trees down in the very back of our lot, and we’re trying to clear all this out before spring. A chain saw would make quick work of this. However, as you can tell from my technique in the photo, it might also [...]
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