Weekend Homesteader: July
Welcome
to the resources page for the July edition of Weekend
Homesteader! Feel free to leave comments on this page to let me
know what you loved or hated about the ebook, or to share your
experiences with others. I hope you'll also take a minute to
write a review on Amazon so that more readers will consider giving our
ebook a try.
Budget
Gnucash. Free accounting
software.
Freezing food
Strawberry freezer jam. Fruit often doesn't
taste as good frozen, but this lower sugar recipe makes the grade.
Garlic green beans.
This simple dish is a good way to make so-so frozen beans great again.
Mulching
C:N
calculator.
The Klickitack County website has a handy form where you can plug in
mixtures of various types of organic matter and learn the resulting C:N.
Chemistry
of the fungi to bacteria ratio. A more in depth
analysis of why certain mulches and composts promote fungi while others
promote bacteria.
Different
mulches for bacteria and fungi. The C:N isn't the
only characteristic of mulch that determines whether bacteria or fungi
will move in.
Comfrey. Learn about using
comfrey for compost and mulch, choosing the
best comfrey variety,
and growing
comfrey.
Soup
Harvest
catch-all soup.
A basic vegetable soup that varies through the seasons.
Butternut squash and Eqyptian onion soup. Simply delicious.
Butternut
pie. Speaking
of substitutions, here's a "pumpkin pie" recipe that's even better
using a different winter squash.
Please leave a comment
with your own favorite recipes and substitutions.
Or explore more posts by date or by subject.
About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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