Pesca, vtjaime, other food/canning people

Re: Pesca, vtjaime, other food/canning people

• Mrs.vtjaime

  November 2008

  Awesome, thanks!

  Someday when I'm a millionaire and don't have to work, I'm going to get around to all of these things I want to do, like learning to knit, can, etc.
  

  

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• doctorwho

  November 2008

  Wow.  That's a lot of work. 

  I honestly don't know if I'm organized enough to do that. 
  

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• Pescalita

  November 2008

  Thanks, this is awesome. One thing I'm really looking forward to having when we get a house is a "cool, dark place". Maybe I could trick Mr.P into building me a root cellar eventually
  

  

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• EastSideFluffy

  November 2008

  doctorwho:

  Wow.  That's a lot of work. 

  I honestly don't know if I'm organized enough to do that. 
  

  I agree.  I'm totally not organized enough.  I wish I could though.

  I have no desire to own livestock, and really, canning doesn't interest me either, but I'd love to have a modest sized garden.  I like how this talks about storing squash and whatnot.  That sounds easy enough.

  My fantasy isn't quite Little House on the Prairie but more Barefoot Contessa or Jamie Oliver.  Garden and lots of good local sources for organic food.

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• EastSideFluffy

  November 2008

  That book looks like an excellent resource!

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• Pescalita

  November 2008

  major, my MIL in desperate need of Christmas gift ideas thanks you immensely.
  

  

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• WinesNotWhines

  November 2008

  When we lived in our old house, we converted part of the basement to a root cellar. We grew mushrooms, too. It was cool.

  

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• wawajeanne

  November 2008

  majorwife:

  Thanks for this.  I will read it now.

  I am saving this for a blog post but I will let you in on a secret dream of mine that started with this old ass book my SIL gave to me called "Back to Basics", the art of american crafts and hobbies - something like that.

  It is basically a book on how to live like Little House on the Prairie.  How to build a house, how to raise livestock, how to make furniture and candles and quilts.

  On one of the first pages is shows the ideal plot of land and what you would need to survive.

  It is a house on 15 acres with a natural stream and woods.  You have a house, a barn and a garage.  You have horses, cows, pigs, chickens, goats, sheep and geese.  You have a pasture for each animal.  You have 2 grain fields, wheat and hay.  You have an orchard, beehives, a huge garden and compost pile.

  That is my dream.  To be as self sufficient as possible.  I would not need to work since everything I need would be right there.  It would be a shitload of work, considering I would have to plow all the fields with the horses and take care of the animals, but I think I would love it.  I know I would, actually.

   Oh, majorwife, I hear you.  this is my absolute dream.  FI thinks I'm a little nutty, but he's got a wide self-sufficient streak in him too, so he'll cave someday.  I actually grew up somewhere that this was totally doable.  20 acres, half wooded, half pasture, a barn and a stream with a  a little pond tucked back in a little valley with a half mile gravel driveway.
  

  I just always thought I'd buy it from her when she was ready to hand it over.  But instead she sold it my freshmen year of college with absolutely no warning, and I'm still a bitter 6 years later. 
  

  to the op, thanks for the article.  very useful
  

  
  
  My Goodness...another food blog. Featuring: Macarons from a old post with a photo taken by my mom for a break from my crappy food photos!

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