The Doable Off-Grid Homestead – The Solar Water Pump (No Batteries Needed!!!)

This video shows a sample of the types of projects you will find in The Doable Off-Grid Homestead. Moving water around is such a critical task on a homestead that it is nice to have a way to do this in an efficient manner. One way to reduce the cost is to put together a solar water pumping system that doesn’t require batteries. Ideally you could gravity feed most water, which is one thing we also talk about in the book, but when that is not an option this works well.

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Lately: The October Edition

Lately :: a brief smattering of what’s been happening here on the homestead and our other content from around the web. I was watering the fall garden yesterday and wondered when it was that I last updated you all on our “lately”. It was one of those brief moments in the day when it is…

Entitled To What?

The last few days I have been thinking about writing Part 3 to “The Blessing in the Thorns” series. In my pondering of the various things I wanted to say a word eventually rattled around in my head, entitled. In particular, with the current struggles of having a baby in the house, not having peace…

Why Winter Is Menu Planning Season, an Interview, and a Giveaway

Today I have a few things happening around the internet that I’d like to share with you. Why Winter is Menu Planning Season As you know I have been feeding my family from our pantry since the first of December. I shared over at the Plan to Eat blog why menu planning is helping me…

This Week In the Garden

You guys, I no longer have a laundry pile; it is now a laundry wall. It is probably six feet tall which means I can barely reach the top myself. But I’m okay with that. We are now at the point in the rain cycle where doing laundry in town seems imminent. Pond water, however,…

Askinosie Chocolate Winner

First a confession: I ate the chocolate I was going to give to you. Yep. It was really good too. The dark milk chocolate bar with fleur de sel is the best milk chocolate I have ever eaten. It is not nearly as cloyingly sweet as most milk chocolate is. I love that it leaves…

Wise Choice Market 2.0

Real Food. Real Fun. Last week Nourishing Days Design helped roll out the new Wise Choice Market website. It is fun to work on a site with great videos, excellent images, and that sells products I would definitely eat because they are actually healthy! It is rare to find companies that care so much…

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jeannie says:

July 2, 2018 at 5:41 PM

When my sister and I assisted my daughter in butchering her meat birds, we both started laughing when we saw all those chicken feet in a bucket. My daughter had to ask so we explained that our mama had ten of her own kids and two fostererish kids as well as cousins that spent most weekends with us. Mama always cooked every piece of the chicken. All the little kids got a wing and or a foot. The older kids got the choice pieces because they needed the protein more than us little ones. But, I remember playing with my chicken foot. When you pull the back claw, the other claws fold up. I think that’s how it went. The last time I went to China, they served the chicken on a plate with everything from head to feet…no feathers. All my students who went for that trip cringed when we said yes, you eat the feet. LOL. (I have to admit that was one time saying I am vegetarian was nice.)They also couldn’t believe the fish had bones. Only in the US do we fillet everything and throw so much waste out with the bones.

Congratulations on your success. When we were children, if it hadn’t been for our garden, meat chickens, and pig, we would have starved.

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