Recent content by erehwon

Enjoyed the link, we do a lot of dutch oven cooking here making bread, stews, onion rings, roasting fowl etc. great way to cook just unfortunate they are too heavy to go in a backpack! A lot of good recipes and ideas on Kent Rollins web site.

Daft question but is there a prefered knife to have a go at doing this sort of carving? short blade? certain shape? If so any reasonably priced recommendations.

Cast Iron Dutch oven? We use ours to cook all sorts of things over our fire pit.

As much I as l am fascinated by moles and use the mole hill soil for compost and to help break up the clay soil we have here, I would love to find a way to deter them from causing so much damage to our vegetable beds, so far this year their vegetable kill rate has been high, cabbage patch...

Thanks, enjoyed the video and you are right about the eggs, you cannot beat those that are laid by chickens raised naturally by yourself. Similar tools are used here in Bulgaria by the older generation of people but the skills they had using them are slowly disappearing.

More plans than resolutions, once the snows have gone get a basic traditional bow and teach myself to use it, learn to cook using a dutch oven, add some turkeys to our other birds and learn to raise and dispatch them for the table and finally attempt to naturally tan the skins from our meat...

The goose that was given to me by my neighbour yesterday though it did arrive in a sack still breathing and covered in feathers............minor problem!

Slightly of topic but mainstream education today seems to teach kids "What to think" and not "How to think"

Ours are free ranging and only locked away at night for their own safety (jackals, foxes, polecats etc) so they feast on all the insects they can find in the grass, we feed them a mix of corn and wheat/barley that we either grow ourselves, glean from the fields or source from the landowners at...

Our hens free range and we never have two eggs the same size or colour but they are clean as the nest boxes they lay in are in a different coop to the one they sleep in, many people make the mistake of having roosting perches above nest boxes hence getting dirty eggs. I will say that we know...

When snow falls it catches and collects all forms of pollutants including carbon and soot so it should be boiled before drinking. If desperate and you have to eat snow I believe (but my memory may be wrong, it is an age thing!) that the ratio of 10:1 should be used, 10 parts of snow equates to...

We keep @ 10 chickens just for eggs (different chickens for meat), laying an average of 7 per day, we currently have 102 waiting to be used! Omelettes, scrambled eggs, fried eggs are all part of our diet and many are used in baking by my partner, others are fed to the dogs and given to friends...

Question everyone and everything always remembering that there are two sides to every story and the truth is somewhere in the middle. Too many people today accept that what they are told and what they read is correct, honest and truthful, the skill of gathering information and...

At the risk of upsetting people from the UK on here, I am afraid to say that the general populace has been silent on many matters of concern for too long, having spent many long periods away from the UK I was always shocked on my return to see the changes in the country and to often be told by...

Around four inches landed here in Bulgaria two days ago but life carries on here, unlike in the UK!!:):):)