Showing posts with label Raising Food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Raising Food. Show all posts
Sunday, September 3, 2023

Bountiful Berry Harvest in Alaska + Recipe for BBQ sauce with berries

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Sadly, 2023 was “the summer that wasn’t.” The Land of the Midnight Sun was, instead, the Land of the Midnight Rain and Mid-day Rain.  One ...
Sunday, June 4, 2023

Spring Breakup: Two weeks from snow to edible wild plants

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(The prior article focuses on the Breakup's lake ice and water fowl.   This one focuses on rapid changes on land). Breakup, our term f...
Saturday, November 20, 2021

Winter Animal Tracks + Recipe Saskatoon Pancakes

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One of my favorite things to do in winter is to observe and follow animal tracks I find on walks around our property or along woodland tra...
Thursday, September 30, 2021

Highbush Cranberry Harvest and Alaskan Recipe

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My adult version of Halloween Trick or Treating is to gather highbush cranberries when they are red and ripe in the autumn.  In cool weather...
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Wednesday, July 10, 2019

Butchering Chickens: Slow and Effortful

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For five or six years, we have raised laying hens and enjoyed them immensely, for their eggs, foraging for bugs, and alerting us to p...
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Thursday, April 18, 2019

Alaska Chicken Care

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My sister provides   “Four Seasons” Hotel treatment to her pets.   My animal husbandry, on the other hand, is more rudimentary.   Maybe...
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Wednesday, January 9, 2019

Alaska Earthquake Effects at Remote Cabin

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Alaska is VERY seismically active.   At our place, we feel the earth shudder several times a year.   On November 30, South Central Alaska...
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Sunday, November 18, 2018

Frugal Organic Savings to Do at Home

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    as seen on www.survivalblog.com   When people jokingly refer to Whole Foods as “Whole Paycheck” to indicate the price points, I wonde...
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Thursday, August 30, 2018

Alaska Honey Harvest: Raise your own sweet

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For the past few years, our four hives have produced a total of 11-17.5 gallons of delicious and useful honey each summer (depending on wea...
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Sunday, April 16, 2017

34 Degrees - Spring is Here!

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Anyone looking at these photos might understandably doubt my assertion that spring has arrived.  We still have 1-2 feet of snow throughout ...
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Monday, April 18, 2016

Turning Alaskan Birch Sap into Syrup, Part 2

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(This is Part 2, focusing on cooking the sap down to syrup.  To read about collecting the sap, please enjoy the prior article ). In our n...
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Sunday, April 10, 2016

Collecting Birch Sap for Syrup, Part 1

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In 2013, I wrote a blog article about collecting birch sap in the spring to make beer.  Since that topic has continued to attract hundreds ...
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Saturday, September 5, 2015

How Much Food Can a Part Time Gardener Raise in Alaska?

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During WWII, Americans were encouraged to grow “victory gardens” of fresh food in their yards as a patriotic effort, and millions did,...
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Monday, May 25, 2015

Free Ranging Ducks and Chickens - Hide and Seek with Eggs

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Geo-caching is a high-tech version of hide and seek, complete with GPS and computer resources.   Our decidedly low-tech version is findin...
Friday, March 27, 2015

Housing Winter Rabbits in Cold Climates

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Here in Alaska, we raise rabbits, ducks, and chickens for food. By mid-February, we had more animals than housing, but, for various rea...
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Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Raising Honey Bees in Alaska, Harvesting Honey

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Every year, we add a few new projects, as we endeavor to increase our self-reliance. This year, in the arena of animal husbandry, we added ...
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