Any Butcher and packer supply store will have curing salts (sodium nitrate), and any bulk store has table salt at about 6 bucks per 25Kg.

I live on an acreage just outside the city, I have a 2500 gallon cistern in the basement and 2x 3000 tanks buried in the back yard that collects rainw...

People PLEASE, PLEASE take me serious on this next "Firearm", it's fairly inexpensive, you can use a whole variety of different types of ammo, and muc...

The truth is most people especially in the urban areas have no more than 3 or 4 days worth of food at home tops. Even fewer have adequate amounts of w...

Salt is cheaper than dirt, and curing meat, sausage, jerky, pepperoni, fish, prosciutto, ect , is really easy and anyone can do it. I would encourage ...

Any of you country folk know how to make Mead? Talk about a trade item. :DCall me when its warm, I'm in 😀

I kind of agree. its not my poison and I'm not really sure I care one way or the other if its legal or decriminalized. But back to booze, i think I'd ...

I'm a short drive west of Edmonton. Anyone else out this way?

I've tried to dehydrate potatoes in a bunch of different ways, and they all work and dry really well. The problem is that they do not come back worth ...

Whether legal or otherwise, I still think that making wine is the best bet to choose for an indulgence. 🙂

As mentioned in a previous thread I have started a new project, rehabilitating an old 1978, 23 ft., Ford, 460cc, Okanagan RV.Thats new compared to mi ...

I have a rough use knife in every vehicle, quad, or pack. They are for cutting down trees and work that you do not with to damage a good skinning knif...

Wow, This firearm discussion is really all over the map. I would encourage anyone who is concerned about self-sustaining and is a law abiding citizen...