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Fried Okra
One of the very few things that will grow even during the hottest part of the summer is okra. It not only grows, it thrives. Once it starts producing, picking okra is literally a daily task. Okra must...
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Making Vanilla Extract
Self-reliance. Making things for yourself rather than buying them – or at least knowing how – is central to agrarianism. That doesn’t mean that do-it-yourself is always better than buying something...
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Cooking With The Sun – On Order
I have been interested in solar ovens for quite a while. After wanting to build one and realizing that I’m never going to find the time to build a really sturdy solar oven, I decided to go ahead and...
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Cooking With The Sun
In the previous post, I ordered a Global Sun Oven with Dehydrating and Preparedness Package. Today, we cooked our first full meal with it. We had previously cooked some beans that we had just picked...
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Eat What You Grow
This Black Beauty eggplant is a reliable producer here in The South. Most of us tend to plan our gardens, at some point, by leafing through a seed catalog and picking what we like to eat. While “Grow...
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Seminole Pumpkin Follow-up
This is a followup to a post from July 4, 2012. I’ll start with the relevant text from the original post: Experimentation is the key to successful gardening. What grows in your area? What part of your...
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