Day: August 28, 2016

Notes for Sunday – August 28, 2016

Readers of SurvivalBlog who use our RSS feed to stay up-to-date will notice that the entire article is no longer available via RSS. You must now click on the “Read More…” or the article title to actually read the entire article. We know this an inconvenience but we have had a series of copy-cat blogs who are posting the entire articles on their own sites using the RSS feed function. Most of these sites are little more than click-bait trying to get you to purchase products from their Amazon store or in their site. After dealing with a couple of sites that absolutely refused to adhere to our copyright and reposting rules on our provisos page, we have had to take the step of truncating the feeds. We’ve even had one site claim in our DCMA complaint against them that they are the originator and we are the poorly behaved competition. Perhaps we will loosen the feed restrictions again in a few months after these fly-by-night sites have collapsed and are gone.


My Tomato Process- Part 3, by Sarah Latimer

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Freeze Drying Tomato Sauce I am absolutely thrilled with the results from our Harvest Right Freeze Dryer! I can not only dry fruits, vegetables, meats, and herbs, but I can freeze dry meals. With that accomplished, I began to think about sauces. Sometimes a recipe will call for just a tablespoon of tomato paste. Who wants to open a whole home-canned jar or even a store-bought can of tomato paste just to extract one tablespoon? Then, you have to figure out what to do with the rest before it spoils and (I almost can’t tolerate thinking of it) it has …


Letter Re: Low Tech Cooking

Hugh, One of your readers was asking about low tech cooking methods. He should search for Haybox Cooker. Articles will be found at Mother Earth News, Instructables, and elsewhere. It’s a very old method of first bringing food to a boil, then setting in an insulated box, and using fine hay to surround the cooking vessel. I’ve used blankets and towels, and it works wonderfully for soup, stew, making your own yogurt, and even for beans. Also, a sun oven is invaluable for low tech inexpensive cooking. Yes, you can and we did buy an expensive one, but our son …


Economics and Investing:

The sinister side of cash. Here comes the propaganda machine to attempt to take us to a cashless society. Why be concerned? Imagine a system where everything is cashless. You cannot do anything if the system is down for any reason. Moreover, who is to say that they cannot arbitrarily decide to restate the value of the number of “units” in your account(s)? – P.S. o o o Jim Rickards: “There Will Be A War On Gold” o o o GOLD & DEBT: The 1929 Great Depression vs The Next Great Collapse – It is truly amazing the amount of …


Odds ‘n Sods:

Wranglerstar: DJI Phantom 4 Drone vs Angry Cow! One of our favorite Vloggers uses a drone to herd cows. – T.J. o o o Won 6 Olympic metals but shunned by media – W.C. o o o SurvivalBlog reader K.C sent in this link to Nat Geo Maps. Are you looking for a standard quad 7.5 minute map? Here is your chance. They are already formatted to print out on US Letter. o o o Off grid living in Central Oregon!The latest ad on our sister site SurvivalRealty.com o o o Louisiana Officials Demand That Self-reliant Locals Stop Surviving The …



Notes for Saturday – August 27, 2016

On August 27, 1883, the most powerful volcanic eruption in recorded history occured on Krakatau, a small, uninhabited volcanic islan located west of Sumatra in Indonesia. Hear 3000 miles away, the explosions threw five cubic miles of earth 50 miles into the air, created 120 foot tsunamis and killed 36,000 people. o o o Ready Made Resources is now an authorized re-seller of the Harvest Right Freeze Drier Machine. It’s on sale right now and the price includes shipping. If you are looking to pick one up, this may be the time. SurvivalBlog has been using this new machine for …