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Homesteading on a porch

Posted by Millers Grain House on January 26, 2009 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

I always love to hear the trials and triumps of others who have that same pioneering spirit of a homesteader. Many people are overcoming the limits in which they live (financial, spacial, educational,etc) to find ways to improve their lives on a deeper level than monitarialy. That is the homesteader's spirit! Below is a partial blog/newsletter from a ministry in Isreal that I follow/support. I find this to be one of the most useful recycling ideas for styrofoam. With this plan, anyone can grow…(read more)

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Categories: cheap, city, container garden, contentment, cost effective, creative, food, food budget, garden, gardening, groceries, herbs, homestead, homestead mindset anywhere, homesteading, how to, mindset, porch, preparing, recycle, suburubs, tomatoes, veggies

Nation wide peanut butter recall - homesteading mindset solution

Posted by Millers Grain House on January 20, 2009 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

In case you haven't read/heard there is a huge peanut butter recall (yes, again) across the nation. It is affecting everything from the stuff itself to ice cream and candy bars that peanut butter is in - I mean EVERYTHING is getting the FDA warning for recall if it contains ANY peanut butter. There is even an investigation as to how this occurred on such a massive scale. Today, we finished our last store-bought peanut butter. Now, we had purchased this giant canister (think huge coffee can size…(read more)

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Categories: budget, food, frugal, home-made, homestead, homestead mindset anywhere, homesteading, how to, mindset, peanut butter, preparing, recipe, save, survive