Prepping

Discussion in 'Shopping & Sales' started by Ken Anderson, Mar 16, 2020.

  1. Mary Stetler

    Mary Stetler Veteran Member
    Registered

    Joined:
    May 30, 2021
    Messages:
    5,696
    Likes Received:
    10,689
    Normally we have wonderful raspberries. This year hardly any. I don't think I will plant any more apples. We have young stock coming up but I am old:rolleyes:
     
    #46
    Don Alaska likes this.
  2. Don Alaska

    Don Alaska Supreme Member
    Task Force Registered

    Joined:
    Mar 6, 2018
    Messages:
    11,062
    Likes Received:
    20,447
    Ours are the same way, @Mary Stetler. I think the dry spell at the beginning of summer reduced the yield of raspberries. With the rain lately, things are picking up, but not to the level of previous years.
     
    #47
  3. Marie Mallery

    Marie Mallery Veteran Member
    Registered

    Joined:
    Jul 13, 2021
    Messages:
    10,272
    Likes Received:
    9,319
    Don I know one species that is loving it, vines! But we have lost some wild native plants here. Don't know why.
     
    #48
  4. Mary Stetler

    Mary Stetler Veteran Member
    Registered

    Joined:
    May 30, 2021
    Messages:
    5,696
    Likes Received:
    10,689
    Yes, our grapes are surprisingly good this year. hubby wants to make wine but neither of us drink anymore.:(
     
    #49
    Marie Mallery likes this.
  5. Marie Mallery

    Marie Mallery Veteran Member
    Registered

    Joined:
    Jul 13, 2021
    Messages:
    10,272
    Likes Received:
    9,319
    We had wild grapes on our property as a child, muscadines.
     
    #50
  6. Don Alaska

    Don Alaska Supreme Member
    Task Force Registered

    Joined:
    Mar 6, 2018
    Messages:
    11,062
    Likes Received:
    20,447
    You can make wine vinegar for use as a salad dressing or for other purposes other than long-term food preservation. You can even add some of your farmed or foraged herbs to the vinegars.
     
    #51
  7. Mary Stetler

    Mary Stetler Veteran Member
    Registered

    Joined:
    May 30, 2021
    Messages:
    5,696
    Likes Received:
    10,689
    It is surprising how difficult getting really good vinegar is.
     
    #52
    Don Alaska likes this.
  8. Don Alaska

    Don Alaska Supreme Member
    Task Force Registered

    Joined:
    Mar 6, 2018
    Messages:
    11,062
    Likes Received:
    20,447
    I have learned recently that to make good vinegar, you should make the wine first, then open it to the air and inoculate it with the "mother" from other good vinegar and allow it to go to near completion. I previously had just allowed the juice to go straight to vinegar, but apparently that can lead to contaminated vinegar. If you let the alcohol form first, the alcohol kills off both the yeast and the bad bacteria. Then you add "good" bacteria or let it accumulate on its own. It is a similar process to sauerkraut but using the alcohol instead of salt.
     
    #53
  9. Mary Stetler

    Mary Stetler Veteran Member
    Registered

    Joined:
    May 30, 2021
    Messages:
    5,696
    Likes Received:
    10,689
    Thanks!
     
    #54
    Don Alaska likes this.
  10. Ken Anderson

    Ken Anderson Senior Staff
    Staff Member Senior Staff Greeter Task Force Registered

    Joined:
    Jan 21, 2015
    Messages:
    24,325
    Likes Received:
    42,610
    While raspberries, as first posted, were in line with prepping, a prolonged discussion about growing raspberries or other plants should be in the gardening section, and this is the shopping section.
     
    #55
  11. Mary Stetler

    Mary Stetler Veteran Member
    Registered

    Joined:
    May 30, 2021
    Messages:
    5,696
    Likes Received:
    10,689
    OK but if I grow it, I put it up for storage.
     
    #56
  12. Teresa Levitt

    Teresa Levitt Veteran Member
    Registered

    Joined:
    Oct 22, 2019
    Messages:
    1,025
    Likes Received:
    1,971
    i told my husband it'd probably be easier on our mind if we just think of prepping as our new hobby!..and that makes it fun!...
    Wild edibles
    Bargain shopping
    Rain water collection and purification
    Winter wood
    and others
     
    #57
  13. Mary Stetler

    Mary Stetler Veteran Member
    Registered

    Joined:
    May 30, 2021
    Messages:
    5,696
    Likes Received:
    10,689
    It IS fun. And the knowledge can come in useful to help yourself and others.
    Those that are dependent on the gov't are basically slaves even if they have not been called upon to serve yet. Having no debt and the knowledge to take care of yourself and others will keep you free. Getting free stuff and handouts will not.
     
    #58
    Teresa Levitt likes this.
  14. Beth Gallagher

    Beth Gallagher Supreme Member
    Registered

    Joined:
    Jan 11, 2018
    Messages:
    20,309
    Likes Received:
    42,297
    I think back about my mother and grandma canning vegetables, making jelly, hanging meat in the smokehouse, etc. and realize that they were simply "prepping" for the coming winter. The food they grew and put up was what fed us when it was too cold to garden.
     
    #59
    Don Alaska and Mary Stetler like this.
  15. Teresa Levitt

    Teresa Levitt Veteran Member
    Registered

    Joined:
    Oct 22, 2019
    Messages:
    1,025
    Likes Received:
    1,971
    we must persevere...pray for our health to hold up...and safely do what has to be accomplished...i have learned new way to preserve foods...the wild foods are very important...so much to do...
     
    #60
    Don Alaska and John Brunner like this.

Share This Page