Dehydrated Meals for Long Term Storage

Once you’ve tried them, and have decided that you like them, triple the recipe and store them by vacuum packing with an oxygen absorber enclosed. Remember that these foods are dehydrated, NOT dried.  Dried foods retain a certain level of moisture, which will ruin food storage.

For the Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Is the Hand That Rules the World

For a very long time I believed the sentiments of that poem, and still do to a certain extent.  It is true that “the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world,” it’s just that mothers aren’t doing the rocking any longer. 

Processing Acorns and Pine Nuts

Acorns

First you will need to gather the acorns by picking them up off the ground or laying a tarp beneath the tree and shaking them loose.  Toss out any that are discolored, damaged in any way, or that have no caps, and then put them in a large pot of cold water to soak.  Be sure to remove any that float – they are inedible.

Bees: Colony Collapse Disorder

 

 

Before you use any of these recipes always try them out on a few leaves of one of the plants that is bothered by insects to make sure it does no harm to the plant itself.  Once you determine it is safe, spray in the early morning or late in the evening when beneficial insects aren’t typically about.  Also, make sure you spray the underside of leaves where bugs tend to like to hide.

 

I'm only listing recipes that can be taken from foods you can grow yourself in your own backyard garden.

 

Avian Flu Arrives in the US

NewsLeader.com, April 1, 2011

Farm Plans to Kill Turkeys Infected with Avian Flu

http://www.news-leader.com/article/20110401/NEWS01/104010367/1007/Farm-plans-kill-turkeys-infected-avian-flu

KY3 News, March 31, 2011

Testing Will See if Bird Flu has Spread From Turkey Farm in Polk County

http://articles.ky3.com/2011-03-31/bird-flu_29368568

Cargill

http://www.cargill.com/company/index.jsp

Union of Concerned Scientists

http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/science_and_impacts/impacts_industrial_agriculture/they-eat-what-the-reality-of.html#Same_Species_Meat_Diseased_Animals_and_F

Center for Disease Control

http://www.cdc.gov/flu/avian/outbreaks/past.htm