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Preparedness Nuggets 1 Beer Sourdough for Bread + Bread and Flour + Dutch Oven Baking + Outdoor Brick Ovens + Several Guys Shopping Lists in Several Categories + Solar Cooker +
Preparedness Nuggets 2 More Preparedness Lists + Basic Wheat Cereal Recipe + Dry Potatoes + Hard Candy, Canned Meat + Sources for bulk grains and beans + Pop Bottle Greenhouse +
Preparedness Nuggets 3 Acorns and Cattails + Alternative Power Explained + Eating Dandelions + Flowers but no Tomatoes? + Free internet classified ads + Free Plastic Buckets + Goats Milk + Baby Formula + How to hook up a generator to your household electrical system + How to Sell Your Home + Mulching with Hay + Oxygen Absorbers + Out of Print Books + Planting in Leaf Mulch + Quick and Easy Greenhouse + Underground House + Use all the fruit, including the apple cores and peach skins + Using Rainwater + Wild Onions + Wind Power
Preparedness Nuggets 4 Book on food storage + Food co-ops + First aid for dehydrated persons + Generators and extension cords + More on generators + More on back feeding generators + Planning Guide + Storing Kroger cans + Washing clothes + Where There Is No Doctor (book recommendation) + Woodburning Stoves +
Preparedness Nuggets 5 Basic Alternative Power/Battery charging info + Beautiful Outhouse + Christian Women's Comments + Deep-fried Dandelion Flowers + Don't store things in your attic + Checking a used wood stove you are thinking about buying + Greenhouse for under $100 + More on Greenhouses + Homestead Products + How-to Books, Carriages + Joseph in the Bible: how did he do it? + Kerosene Lamps + Log Cabins + Make your own lye + Mini-cellars + Mini-cellars and PVC pipes + Mormon cannery + Mormon company + Mulch gardening + Nonlethal home defense + Poison oak + Preserving yeast + Report from Vermont + Sites on hometeading + Small cheap cold frames + Storage food source + Water service letter + Where to get gold
Nuggets 6 Food Storage Book + Ezekial Bread + One Guy's Shopping List + Spiritual Preparation +
Nuggets 7 Adding Vitamin E to oils + Bakers Supplies + Basic food storage on a limited budget + Baygen Radios + Buying Bulk Foods + Can dispenser shelves + Canned vs Dehydrated foods + Canning + Canning Again + Catholic Simple Living URL + Catholic homesteading/spirituality newsletter + Charcoal for dutch ovens + Clay oven baking + Clothing + Cookbook for poor people + Cooking with a thermos + Dutch oven cooking + Fats and oils + Feed four cheaper + Food storage FAQS + Freezing white flour before storing it + Freezing herbs + Freshly ground dried corn and a hoecake recipe + RV sales store as source for solar cell equipment + Buying bulk Herbs and Spices + Homeschooling + Important considerations regarding electrical inverters + Just for fun: GLOOP + Killing critters in bulk items + Learn healthcare skills now + Low cost propane + Low-fuel cooking + LP gas freezers and refrigerators + MORE on canning + More on emergency refrigeration + Nutritious pancake syrup + Off-grid refrigeration + One month food supply in one box, almost + Outdoor bread ovens + Pressure canners + Olive Oil + Re-using newspapers, bags, and tin cans + Refrigerators + Seven major mistakes of food storage + Shelf life of canned goods + Small refrigerator run by a battery + Solar cooker + Start on a new "y2k" diet gradually + Storage of canned foods + Tomato and cheese mixes + Trash + Vaccum sealers/packers + Water + Water Wheel Plus + Windmills + Y2k site for women + "Farmette" Homesteader +
Nuggets 8 + Adult Tricycle + Canning Cakes + Coffee, Soup, Bleach shelf life + Is chlorinated pool water safe to drink? + Drying Potatoes + Dutch Ovens, Iron Cookware + First Aid Kit + Food Sealer + Freezing Pipes + Garbarge or sewer emergency needs immediate community response + Kerosene is very safe + Kerosene Lamps + More on iron cookware + Online health and nutrition newsletter + Diatomaceous Earth + Radio + Sample preparation plans + Sourdough + Staying in your community + Christian Homesteading + Things to do list + Think of helping others + Venison recipes + Water filters + Water filters II + Your y2k medicine cabinet
Nuggets 9 + Another Mennonite Company + Barleygreen and just carrots + Dried ground beef, sierra cups + Fasting bread + Home remedies: CAUTION + Home-made potato flakes + Live foods + Lloyd's home remedies + Make-your-own yeast + Mormon Cannery + Non-hybrid seeds + Out-of-print books + Plant meaty tomatoes for drying + Solar oven + Storage + Store your seeds underground + Tents and knive + Using hot water 3 times
Nuggets 10 + Anchor your RV + Banana bread in a jar + Building an outside bread oven + Canning a great zucchini salsa + Cash withdrawals + Corn cob jelly + Crank radio + Dried tomatoes + Egg storage + Free kombucha starter culture + Home remedy: Black walnut salve + No fail shortening soap recipe + Non-electric food dehydrator + One year food storage for family of 8 + Pallets for fire wood + Buy food now + Solar dehydrator + Storing eggs with waterglass + Store what you eat and eat what you store + Storing wheat + Storing brown rice
Nuggets 11 + Great zucchini salsa for canning + Grow potatoes vertically + More preparedness books + Nutrition data + Odd grains/make noodles + Bay leaves for storing rice + Rootbeer recipe + Salsa canning recipe + Scrounge the used book stores + Simplest solar cooker + Thermos cooking + Unusual recipes in old canning books + Using dried veggies + Water storage information + Well drilling +
Nuggets 12 + Another great non-electric catalog + Build your own water distiller + Cook perfect rice + Cooking pinto beans + Cooling home-made soap + County extension office for canning advice + Crank/solar radios + Dehydrated food + Drying seeds + Fall gardening + Foraging off the land + Forever foods + Our farmer friends + Free or cheap 5 gallon buckets + Glitchproof + Goatpaint and other products + Is lye soap harsh? + Mega-links for living green, off the grid + Milk and juice jugs for water + Mormon cannery + Planting store-bought potatoes? + Plastic food/water containers + Poison oak and ivy + Post y2k phone tip + Pump and seal + Pumping well water + Square foot gardening email discussion list + Storage food source + Storing eggs + Supplies and suppliers + Thermos cooking + Using those dried veggies + Vacuum sealer + Water in mylar-lined boxes + Water purification straw + Waterbeds for storing water? + Why not just buy water in jugs? + + Preparation info on the internet
Nuggets 13 + Famous Louisiana Beans + Best-selling y2k preparedness books + Care for those in need + Cellar eggs keep 6 months + Chickens and eggs + Cook brown rice like pasta + Cutting barrells for planters + Diatomaceous earth + Botulism worries + During the blizzard + Famous Puerto Rican beans + Feeding rabbits + Grains for breakfast + Heat-treating storage grains + How many briquets to bake bread? + If your garden has serious bug problems. . . + Instant roux and canned meats + More on cooking rice + List of Mormon canneries + Plastic milk jug mini-dome greenhouses + Practice your y2k eating + Pressure cooker pinto beans + Re-using tires safely + Two great SOURDOUGH sites + Sourdough bread baked in a dutch oven + Sourdough starter recipe + Beginning preparedness checklist + Vacuum sealer + Wheat varieties + Whole grains stored in donut buckets
Nuggets 14 Encourage Young Mothers to Breast-feed + Pressure Canning Milk + Pumping from a deep well + Sierra camp stoves and wood pallets + Small stock: the advantages of having friends + Soy and More Soy + Using water bottles for thermal mass + Bottling your own water + Burying potato stems + Canning Web Sites + Cooked Soybeans + Cooking jelly without pectin + Cooking Rice Right + Don't store water in your attic + Farm supply: water tanks + Grow and dry chili peppers as a healing herb + More cake-in-a-jar recipes + Newspaper Logs + Oil, Fat, and Grease + Planting potatoes in straw + Post y2k phone tip + Potatoes in the mulch + Smells in the kitchen + Softened soya grits + Solar water distilling + Soy cakes + Soy cheese + Soy spread + Soybean medley + Soybean paste + Soynuts + Square foot potatoes + Stock something for the babies + Storing beans + Storing gasoline + To ripen green tomatoes + Tofu: how to make it + Storing grains outside in freezing weather
Nuggets 15 2 liter bottles for water storage + A home-made, improvised grain mill + A thread of messages about changing ax heads + Antibiotic alternatives + Babies and diapers + Baby wipes: make your own + Barrels are beautiful! + Blood meal in compost + Brine + Browned flour: a solution for diaper rash + Buckwheat as a cover crop + Cabbage varieties + Canning spaghetti sauce + Cattails + Comfrey + Compost: cubic foot method + Compost: more basics and some books + Composting: another article + Creosote and chimney fires + Dandelion omelets + Dehydrating canned vegetables + Diaper soakers + Diatomaceous earth + Dried veggie and macaroni casserole + Drying herbs + Emergency diets for diabetics + Emergency heating tips + Energy glow breakfast + Extra can openers are necessary + Fiddlehead ferns + Food grade plastic buckets + Free source for syrup barrels for water storage + Gardener's sun punch + Gathering wood in national forests + Greywater: don't store it! + Herbal flu remedy + How to start a siphon + Jerky: make it without a salty marinade + Kitchen scraps and compost + Land for community gardens + Making butter + Making soap + Mop bucket laundry bucket + More on pest control + Mulching + Newspaper logs + Olive oil and parmesan bread spread + Pests and the garden + Pinecone firestarters + Pitch an inside tent as a heat shelter + Planning: essential to success + Put your propane tank downhill from your house + Recipe using canned hams + Seed saving details (brassicas) + Soil testing + Solar cooking + Sprouting + Sprouting pumpkin seeds + Teach the children first + Tobacco: alternative uses (not for smoking!) + Vienna bread + Warnings on buying rural property + Washing clothes by hand + Witch hazel + Wool: best for soakers. (Total pages this nugget when printed: 36)
100 LB/HOUR GRAIN MILL + 200 Gallon waterbags for storage + Advice on chickens + Aloe vera plant for healing burns + Bandages: a cheap and unusual source + Catholic preparedness organization + Composting manure + Container gardening + Cooking on a wood stove + Cooking pasta with minimum fuel + Cooking with a wok + Crockpot cooking + Dehydrating cooked beans and rice + Expert advice on starting seeds + Garlic growing details + How to make your own electrical generator + Insulin storage + Link to homemade solar panel site + Make your own inside window thermal shutters + Make your own tofu + Make your own well bucket + Making compost and growing potatoes + Making compost and growing worms (cheaply) + Netlinks on raising rabbits + One family's alternative energy setup + Oral Rehydration solution (WHO recipe) + Practical advice on storing whole grains + Rabbit Production Figures + Recipe for baby formula + Report on Breedlove/Harvest Ladle Foods + Salt Cured Country Ham + Saving and sprouting your seed + Saving bacon grease + Seed saving procedures + Shortening + Solar cooker suggestions + Solar living on-line newsletter + Storing cheese without refrigeration + The Three Sisters + Tomato Gravy + Troubleshooting Home canning problems + Winter hand laundry
100 useful items for emergencies/disaster relief + A food coop active in 30 states + A thread on cracked feed corn + A thread on stove top breads + Access to low-tech sustainable living information + Cleaning wheat + Coffee substitutes + Cooking and canning in a pressure cooker + Corona grain mill + Dehydrating spinach (plus some recipes and uses for spinach flour) + Dehydrating Swiss chard + Edible flowers + Excellent non-commercial site on drinking water + Gardening in bags of potting soil + HAMBURGER ROCKS (HOME DEHYDRATED FRIED HAMBURGER) + How to can butter + How to survive a heart attack when you are alone + Instant refried bean mix + Kiddie wading pool garden + Make your own ranch dressing mix + Mom's famous old Russian sourdough starter + Natural insect repelling plants + Organizing your food storage as meals + Outdoor baking ideas + Planting potatoes + Recipes for making your own pest deterrents + Shoe repair links + Smithfield hams + Tobacco based insect control + Using sprouts + Warning label to be placed on all people who think for themselves
Nuggets 18 Baking bread in a dutch oven + Biodiesel + Chicken soup without the chicken + Egg substitutes for baking + Growing indoor tomatoes + Ham radio advice + Homemade laundry detergent + How to make your own charcoal + Library of American Civilization + Salt cured country hams may be stored without refrigeration + Solar cooking in a wheelbarrow + The power grid + Using garlic as a natural remedy + Water storage in cisterns + Waxing hard cheese
Old Ways/New Ways What would happen if the infrastructure crashed? A science fiction story centered on "jumpstarting a sustainable, faith-based society"
INFORMATION ABOUT PREPAREDNESS NUGGETS
Discussion Lists access to various discussion lists, including the Catholic Stewardship lists at CatholiCity, good sources of information about the proper stewardship of our material resources.
The redactor of parts 1 through 14 is Mrs. Julianne Wiley, a resident of the Volunteer State (that's Tennessee). She is a good and kind woman, and in providing this material so that it can be published to cyberspace, she is truly doing the works of justice as well as the corporal and spiritual works of mercy. I am glad for the opportunity to host this material at the Justpeace websites. The redactor of parts 15 - 18 is yours truly, Robert Waldrop.
In publishing this material, neither Mrs. Wiley nor myself can necessarily vouch for the usefulness or practicality or wisdom or prudence of any specific item herein, except as we may say with our own words on these pages. We are not practicing medicine nor giving legal or financial advice. This is more like visiting over the back fence or meeting at the coffee shop or talking on the phone or going to a baby shower or monks laboring in scriptoriums to collect, disseminate, and preserve information for the future. As with anything in modern life, readers must use their own discernment.
The voices of many different people, from across the world, speak in these pages, of their own experiences and journeys, with a diversity of practical wisdom herein. If you have information that should be on these pages, please send send Robert email.
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