The Organic Gardening Workshop – Includes Planning your Garden, three ways to build your soil; composting techniques; seeds: starts, harvesting, storing; cloche building, greenhouse, cold frame, raised bed gardening, organic psest control; beekeeping; suggested books; resources and catalogs.3 hours
Long Term Food Storage & Preserving the Harvest Includes six essential food items to store; canning and freezing; grains, beans and berries; seed sprouting; dehydrating; root cellaring; and vacuum sealing. 3 hours
Setting Up the Self-Sufficient Homestead – Includes how to choose undeveloped land or land with an existing home. How to find water; alternative energy sources; farm animals: cows, goats, sheep, hoses, pigs, and chickens. Water: finding, pumping, storing, and purifying. Also included, how to put together an herbal medicine kit; the value of aquaculture; what is a CSA, and community living.
3 hours
Dry It You'll Like It!by Gen MacManiman - Now in its 28th printing, MacManiman’s classic is a wonderful guide for dehydrating and preserving the nutrient value of foods from almost every category: fruits, vegetables, seeds and grains, herbs, meat and fish, desserts, and pot cheeses. In addition to providing must-know information about dehydrating, the author shows you how to construct your own food dehydrator for even greater savings. While dehydrating increases our food independence and provides instant food for those on the go, it is also a way of saving money by buying (or hunting or gathering) in bulk and preserving your finds for future use.
Quick Wholesome Foods With LeArta Moulton - You can make steak and hamberger-like dishes, jerky, sausage and other "wheatmeats" from wheat flour. Learn how in this video. Also, cream soups, sauces, gravies, and thickenings from beans and bean flour. From powdered milk: 3-minute cheeses, cottage cheese, cream cheese, sour cream, buttermilk and pudding.
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Putting Food By by Janet Greene, et al - A new edition of the best-selling classic which covers the basics on canning fruits, tomatoes, vegetables, seafood and meats. Also covers the methods used in freezing, making jellies, jams and pickles and relishes. Also a section on curing with salt and smoke, dehydrating and root cellaring.
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Udderly Simple Dairy Foods by Diane Dondero - Using both cow and goat milk, the recipes and instructions in this book will teach you how to make both hard and soft panir cheese, simplified versions of mozzarella, ricotta, cottage cheese, cream cheese, yohgurt, butter, sour cream, clabber, ice cream and the many delightful dishes made from these products. The author was a homesteader in the early 70's and for 13 years ligved in a cabin with an outhouse, no electricity and no refrigeration while rasing four healthy home-birthed babies. She recounts this story throughout the book wihch "is dedicated to individuals; unlimited, self-reliant and sovereign."
Cooking with the Sun - How to Build and Use Solar Cookers by Beth and Dan Halacy - Learn how to build a simple solar cooker that can reach temperatures up to 400 degrees with no smoke or ashes--just clean heat. You will find recipes for bread, chicken and fish; anything you would bake in a traditoinal oven. The difference of course is the saved energy and the higher nutirtional value of solar cooked food. In my classes I mention having more than one plan for cooking food--this book fills that niche.
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Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits & Vegetables by Mike and Nancy Bubel
Use the earth's naturally cool, stable temperature as an energy-saving way to store nearly 100 varieties of perishable fruits and vegetables all year long.
Anyone can learn to store fruits and vegetables safely and naturally with a cool, dark space (even a closet!) and the step-by-step advice in this book. B&W photos and illustrations.
Once you read this book, you will gain insights into the traditional food selection and preparation of our ancestors, and learn how to apply the wisdom of their culinary customs in your modern-day life. Fallon explains why reverting to our traditional diet--complete with healthy portions of animal fats, raw dairy products and fermented vegetables--will protect you from many of the diet-related illnesses that are so prevalent today.
The first portion of the book covers nutrition basics through topics like fats, proteins and carbohydrates. The book is worth buying for this section alone as Fallon dispels many myths about fats and cholesterol that contribute to our society focused, wrongly, on fat-phobia. Prepare to be shocked by the current state of nutrition, and then prepare for the truth that will inevitably result from reading this book.
Throughout the book, the margins are filled with additional food facts and history so that you get a wealth of interesting and useful information just from reading these sidebars alone. What’s more, all of the information in the book is very well researched: if you want to confirm things for yourself, the references are well noted.
Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon - It is clear from the ever-present chronic diseases, skyrocketing overweight and obesity rates and widespread degenerative illnesses facing Americans that something has gone wrong with our diets. Undoubtedly, our reliance on nutrient-depleted processed foods that come out of machines and sickly animals rather than on whole foods from farms is a major issue contributing to the demise of human health.
Sally Fallon takes on this issue and more in her incredible book, "Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats." This is much more than a cookbook--it is a testament to a much-needed transformation of the way we look at food in America.
The Organic Gardening Workshop – Includes Planning your Garden, three ways to build your soil; composting techniques; seeds: starts, harvesting, storing; cloche building, greenhouse, cold frame, raised bed gardening, organic psest control; beekeeping; suggested books; resources and catalogs.
