Pictures, Potatoes & a Party!

I got carried away with the "P" words... but it's fun sometimes to alliterate!

Potatoes
Here's a new one for me: I was told about a method of gardening potatoes in a bucket or garbage can or barrel or bag.

My wonderful husband, after I told him about this craziness, built me a barrel for our potato crop.
Here's what we did: He cut the top off a barrel and drilled holes about 6 inches apart around the base of the barrel. The holes he drilled were about ¼ inch holes.

Then he added about 6 inches of soil and planted the potato starts.

We watered and wait for them to grow.
And already they've grown! Now that they're a few inches tall, we add a few more inches of soil. The process is that we keep adding soil as the plant grow. This allows many "layers" of potatoes to grow inside the same barrel. By the end of the summer, we should have a barrel of potatoes.

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Photos of the Stove Tec

Here's a few photos of the latest stove cooker that some friends purchased. It's called the Stove Tec. It's lined with a ceramic liner to convey heat better.
You can use charcoal or wood. It's very efficient.
If we are interested, we'll out together a group order.
Stoves are $45 each- regularly.

How will you know if you like them??



I'm glad you asked... here's where the PARTY comes in...


I'd like to invite ALL of you, yes that said ALL, to our home for a Preparedness Eating Party. Here's my plan:

Thursday, June 17th, 2010 at 6:30 pm...
Come to my house and we'll see how different cookers and stoves work.
A variety of stoves are coming: Alcohol cooker, Kerosene Stove, Stove Tec (pictured above), Rocket Stove, Sun Oven, smoker and ??

We'll be tasting samples of food prepared on all the different stoves and cookers... You can see them in action... Maybe tempt you to try your emergency stove out.

If you have a form of emergency situation food cooker that I haven't mentioned and you'd like to come demonstrate it as well, that'll be great!
Kids are welcome... my kids love friends.

I'll tell you more as we get closer.
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The website for the Stove Tec is: www.stovetec.net Please check it out by clicking the link. They do a much better job of explaining how neat this appliance is.

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Food Storage/ Home Preparedness Item of the Week: BAKING SODA

Yep, this humble baking ingredient can do so much! Here's a few of my favorites...

* Add 1/2 Teaspoon to omelette's to make them fluffier. (Add 1/2 tsp. per 3 eggs.)
* Sweeten your tomatoes by sprinkling Baking Soda on the ground around the tomato plants.
* Scatter baking soda around your flower beds to prevent rabbits from eating your flowers.
* Relieve skin itch from bug bites and sunburn by rubbing with baking soda.

For a more complete list: www.lifehackery.com

Make sure you have Baking Soda as part of your Food Storage. They do sell Baking Soda in large quantities...
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That's enough for today... Have a great week. Know that I am glad you're my friend!

Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom. Hugo De Groot

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes. James Froude

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done. :)