http://www.permies.com/
Monday, December 3, 2012
ROCKET STOVE - GREAT WAY TO HEAT!
http://www.richsoil.com/rocket-stove-mass-heater.jsp
(Be sure to watch the videos!)
This could be the cleanest and most sustainable way to heat a conventional home. Some people have reported that they heat their home with nothing more than the dead branches that fall off the trees in their yard. And they burn so clean, that a lot of sneaky people are using them illegally, in cities, without detection.
When somebody first told me about rocket mass heaters, none of it made sense. The fire burns sideways? No smoke? If a conventional wood stove is 75% efficient, doesn't that mean the most wood you could possibly save is something like 25%? How do you have a big hole right over the fire and not have the house fill with smoke? I was skeptical.
And then I saw one in action. The fire really does burn sideways. The exhaust is near room temperature - and very clean. The smoke doesn't come back up because a huge amount of air is getting sucked into the wood hole. Neat! I sat on one that had not had a fire in it for 24 hours - it was still hot!
how it works:
(Be sure to watch the videos!)
rocket stove mass heater
rocket mass heaters in a nutshell:
- heat your home with 80% to 90% less wood
- exhaust is nearly pure steam and CO2 (a little smoke at the beginning)
- the heat from one fire can last for days
- you can build one in a day and half
- folks have built them spending less than $20
the verbose details on rocket mass heaters:
This could be the cleanest and most sustainable way to heat a conventional home. Some people have reported that they heat their home with nothing more than the dead branches that fall off the trees in their yard. And they burn so clean, that a lot of sneaky people are using them illegally, in cities, without detection.
When somebody first told me about rocket mass heaters, none of it made sense. The fire burns sideways? No smoke? If a conventional wood stove is 75% efficient, doesn't that mean the most wood you could possibly save is something like 25%? How do you have a big hole right over the fire and not have the house fill with smoke? I was skeptical.
And then I saw one in action. The fire really does burn sideways. The exhaust is near room temperature - and very clean. The smoke doesn't come back up because a huge amount of air is getting sucked into the wood hole. Neat! I sat on one that had not had a fire in it for 24 hours - it was still hot!
how it works:
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
INDIGO EATING A RATTLER
THIS is a one good reason NOT to kill every snake you see. Texas Indigo snake eating a Rattler. The guy who took this pic said "it was still rattling all the way down." They don't hurt humans or dogs!! There ARE snakes that are GOOD to have around, because they target the deadly ones. Just thought I'd share for those of you who think, or have friends who think, "the only good snake is a
dead snake." NOT TRUE!! In fact, it it's against FEDERAL LAW to kill an Indigo. There's only 4 poisonous snakes in the USA... Rattler, Coral, Copperhead & Water Moccasin (Cottonmouth). Learn about them & please don't kill every snake you see. It's important." --CG
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
THE ONE ACRE HOMESTEAD
Start a 1-Acre, Self-Sufficient Homestead:
Your homestead can be divided into land for raising livestock and a garden for raising fruits, vegetables, plus some grain and forage crops.
THE TRAVOI
Weights and Burdens
The Alice pack can weigh 50 to 80 + lbs .
http://
http://www.ehow.com/
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The Alice pack can weigh 50 to 80 + lbs .
http://
http://www.ehow.com/
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http://en.wikipedia.org/
http://www.bing.com/
http://www.bing.com/
Above are Modern carriers, but consider:
The Travoi :
http://en.wikipedia.org/
http://www.bing.com/
http://www.bing.com/
The point i'm trying to make is that out on the trail, there is no Walmart . Bring it, or do without . Too heavy to tote ? Use TECHNOLOGY, Old or New !
http://en.wikipedia.org/
http://www.bing.com/
http://www.bing.com/
Above are Modern carriers, but consider:
The Travoi :
http://en.wikipedia.org/
http://www.bing.com/
http://www.bing.com/
The point i'm trying to make is that out on the trail, there is no Walmart . Bring it, or do without . Too heavy to tote ? Use TECHNOLOGY, Old or New !
GOOD LONG TERM SURVIVAL SHELTERS
Really good shelters you can build out of natural resources with a good machete, some cord and a couple of large burlap bags. These are some very good long term shelters.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUxJuNZXThyl5KTJ0LCqWjdQ
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUxJuNZXThyl5KTJ0LCqWjdQ
Monday, August 6, 2012
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MEDICAL BENEFITS OF HONEY
[Local, Raw] Honey Improves Immunity and Relieves Anxiety
For ages, the anti-bacterial properties of honey have been revered and so it is little wonder that it has been used for medicinal purposes all over the world. If you have a sweet tooth but shrink at the empty calories in processed sugar, honey is your savior.
It’s not only sweet, but “nutritionally quite promising,” says Engeseth, an assi...
For ages, the anti-bacterial properties of honey have been revered and so it is little wonder that it has been used for medicinal purposes all over the world. If you have a sweet tooth but shrink at the empty calories in processed sugar, honey is your savior.
It’s not only sweet, but “nutritionally quite promising,” says Engeseth, an assi...
stant professor of food chemistry at the University of Illinois.
Her research indicates that honey seems to offer many of the benefits of the fresh fruits and vegetables that nutritionists recommend for a daily diet.
“Honey has been used medically for hundreds of years for various reasons, but no one put any really strong science behind it,” Engeseth says. “Honey is often regarded as just a sweetener, but that’s not true. There is a lot of work to show that there is more value to it than has been thought.”
Even in our day-to-day lives, whether it’s a sore throat or a slight burn, we immediately use honey as a quick home remedy. But did you know that this magical product is effective in many other ways too? Here are some alternative ways you can make use of honey.
To relieve anxiety and nervousness: Yes, if you want to reduce or lower your stress levels, you don’t necessarily have to depend on medical prescriptions. Add some pure honey in your porridge. The nutrients in honey produce a calming effect, especially when taken in significant amounts. That’s the reason why some consider it a part of the breakfast of champions. Honey can also be mixed with a suitable beverage for a good night’s sleep!
Acts as an energy booster: Why consume palpitation-inducing energy drinks when you already have honey? You can mix honey with some water and then drink this solution. The glucose content in the honey will be absorbed by the brain and in the bloodstream, which will reduce your body fatigue. This one is simple, yet effective.
Honey reverses antibiotic resistance: Manuka honey could be an efficient way to clear chronically infected wounds and could even help reverse bacterial resistance to antibiotics. Raw, natural honey contains a variety of antioxidants and enzymes, and also has antibacterial properties, which can be effective both internally and externally.
Improves immunity: Though it hasn’t been scientifically been proven, daily consumption of honey is said to strengthen your immune system. Drink a teaspoon of honey daily, along with your morning vitamins and see the difference.
Remedy for ulcers in diabetics: While you have a host of products in the market that can cure ulcers, you can speed up the healing process naturally, if you use honey as a topical solution. Its ability to heal wounds will certainly come in handy when other ointments are not advised to use, especially if you suffer from diabetes.
Helps to heal wounds: Honey may reduce healing times in patients suffering mild to moderate burn wounds. A systematic review by Cochrane Researchers concluded that honey might be useful as an alternative to traditional wound dressings in treating burns.
Her research indicates that honey seems to offer many of the benefits of the fresh fruits and vegetables that nutritionists recommend for a daily diet.
“Honey has been used medically for hundreds of years for various reasons, but no one put any really strong science behind it,” Engeseth says. “Honey is often regarded as just a sweetener, but that’s not true. There is a lot of work to show that there is more value to it than has been thought.”
Even in our day-to-day lives, whether it’s a sore throat or a slight burn, we immediately use honey as a quick home remedy. But did you know that this magical product is effective in many other ways too? Here are some alternative ways you can make use of honey.
To relieve anxiety and nervousness: Yes, if you want to reduce or lower your stress levels, you don’t necessarily have to depend on medical prescriptions. Add some pure honey in your porridge. The nutrients in honey produce a calming effect, especially when taken in significant amounts. That’s the reason why some consider it a part of the breakfast of champions. Honey can also be mixed with a suitable beverage for a good night’s sleep!
Acts as an energy booster: Why consume palpitation-inducing energy drinks when you already have honey? You can mix honey with some water and then drink this solution. The glucose content in the honey will be absorbed by the brain and in the bloodstream, which will reduce your body fatigue. This one is simple, yet effective.
Honey reverses antibiotic resistance: Manuka honey could be an efficient way to clear chronically infected wounds and could even help reverse bacterial resistance to antibiotics. Raw, natural honey contains a variety of antioxidants and enzymes, and also has antibacterial properties, which can be effective both internally and externally.
Improves immunity: Though it hasn’t been scientifically been proven, daily consumption of honey is said to strengthen your immune system. Drink a teaspoon of honey daily, along with your morning vitamins and see the difference.
Remedy for ulcers in diabetics: While you have a host of products in the market that can cure ulcers, you can speed up the healing process naturally, if you use honey as a topical solution. Its ability to heal wounds will certainly come in handy when other ointments are not advised to use, especially if you suffer from diabetes.
Helps to heal wounds: Honey may reduce healing times in patients suffering mild to moderate burn wounds. A systematic review by Cochrane Researchers concluded that honey might be useful as an alternative to traditional wound dressings in treating burns.
Thursday, August 2, 2012
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
GREAT SNACK IDEA
Now That Is The Way To Pack A Snack
Great idea for a healthy snack and it is portable.
HOW TO CHOOSE AND USE A BACKPACK
How To Choose and Use A Backpack
http://
S.W.A.T TEAM HAND SIGNALS
http://www.airsoftgent.be/dbase/hands.htm
HOW TO MAKE MOONSHINE
How To Make Moonshine DIY Recipe
http://
VINEGAR = WEED KILLER
Vinegar Kills Weeds Naturally. Give Monsanto’s Roundup the Heave Ho!
There’s been lots written recently about the toxicity of Monsanto’s poster child product Roundup, exposing how harmful it is for the earth and how poisonous it is on exposure for both animals and humans. However, what is not common knowledge to most organic gardeners and back yard enthusiasts is how they can manage weed control safely without the need for dangerous pesticides. Use vinegar to kill weeds naturally and safely, with no side effects to you, your pets, wildlife and mother earth. Killing weeds naturally with vinegar allows you to target exactly what weeds to eradicate, and it’s cheap and easy to use.
We have also heard that boiling water works better than vinegar.
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Monday, July 30, 2012
DIY GARDEN PATH
DIY garden path. Take a multi picture frame and fill with concrete. (Tip from a reader: Beeswax on the wood - or cooking oil will aid in the release).
Sunday, July 29, 2012
CLEANING FRUIT
Cleaning fruit - fill sink with water, add 1 C. vinegar, mix. Add all fruit and soak for 10 minutes. Water will be dirty and fruit will sparkle with no wax or dirty film. Great for berries too - keeps them from molding. I do this with strawberries and they last for weeks!
http://bit.ly/KaX5Ow
http://bit.ly/KaX5Ow
HOMEMADE MOSQUITO TRAP
Materials:
2 liter bottle
glue
1 tsp yeast
... 1/2 cup sugar
lukewarm water
Instructions:
Cut the top off a 2 liter bottle. Invert the cone and place it inside the straight part of the bottle. Glue the two pieces together. Add 1 tsp yeast and 1/2 cup sugar to some luke warm water, and pour the mixture into the bottle. Mosquitoes are attracted to the carbon dioxide that you exhale. The yeast feeds off the sugar and emits the same gas, so the mosquito enters the bottle, thinking it will find food there and is trapped.
MICROWAVING
Both plants were watered for 9 days...The one on the left with microwaved water and the one on the right with regular water. Microwaving changes the molecular structure of water and food. Nutritionally important and sensitive enzymes in foods would also be affected.
I have stopped microwaving things as often as I can...It is a hard habit to break!
Sun Gazing's Photo
I have stopped microwaving things as often as I can...It is a hard habit to break!
Sun Gazing's Photo
Thursday, July 26, 2012
HOW TO TELL IF AN EGG IS BAD
Place the egg into a bowl of cold water. The water level should be about 2 times higher than the egg.
Fresh eggs will sink to the bottom of the bowl and probably lie on their sides. Slightly older eggs (abou...t one week) will lie on the bottom but bob slightly.
If the egg balances on its smallest tip, with the large tip reaching for the top, it's probably close to three weeks old. Eggs that float at the surface are bad and should not be consumed.
HOMELAND SECURITY VEHICLES
2700 of these now in America...this is a treasonous violation of the Constitution's prohibition against military policing of the country
Get HAM radios, cbs, walkie talkies and loud air horns...set up a network with your neighbors so that when the criminals come in their tanks in the morning you can warn each other and your neighbors to flee before they get there
Get HAM radios, cbs, walkie talkies and loud air horns...set up a network with your neighbors so that when the criminals come in their tanks in the morning you can warn each other and your neighbors to flee before they get there
2700 of these now in America...this is a treasonous violation of the Constitution's prohibition against military policing of the country
Get HAM radios, cbs, walkie talkies and loud air horns...set up a network with your neighbors so that when the criminals come in their tanks in the morning you can warn each other and your neighbors to flee before they get there
Get HAM radios, cbs, walkie talkies and loud air horns...set up a network with your neighbors so that when the criminals come in their tanks in the morning you can warn each other and your neighbors to flee before they get there
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Sunday, July 22, 2012
4 SUPER FOODS
4 Superfoods we can all incorporate in our lifestyle to improve the quality of our life AND fuel our body on PROPER NUTRITION!
NSL Note on Coconut: Kindly use young coconut instead, and please disregard typo error on spelling of "accelerates". :)
Source: The Earth Diet
NSL Note on Coconut: Kindly use young coconut instead, and please disregard typo error on spelling of "accelerates". :)
Source: The Earth Diet
HOME MADE RANCH, ONION SOUP, & TACO SEASONINGS
Home made Ranch, Onion Soup, and Taco Seasonings...no need to buy the "processed" versions of these things! http://selfreliancebyjamie.blogspot.com/2011/08/tis-seasonings.html
Thursday, July 19, 2012
RFID CHIP IMPLANT
OBAMACARE REQUIRES RFID CHIP IMPLANTED FOR PATIENTS BY MARCH 2013
http://www.fda.gov/downloads/medicaldevices/deviceregulationandguidance/guidancedocuments/ucm072191.pdf
"implantable radio frequency transponder system for patient identifi...cation and health information."
Page 1004 of the new law (dictating the timing of this chip), reads,
and I quote: "Not later than 36 months after the date of the enactment"
H.R. 3200 section 2521, Pg. 1001, paragraph 1.
"The Secretary shall establish a national medical device registry (in this subsection referred to as the ‘registry’)
to facilitate analysis of post-market safety and outcomes data on each device that— ‘‘is or has been used in or on
a patient; ‘‘and is— ‘‘a class III device; or ‘‘a class II device that is implantable, life-supporting, or life-sustaining.”
A class II implantable device is an "implantable radio frequency transponder system for patient identification and health information." The purpose of a class II device is to collect data in medical patients such as
"claims data, patient survey data, standardized analytic files that
allow for the pooling and analysis of data from disparate data
environments, electronic health records, and any other data deemed
appropriate by the Secretary."
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act:
Class III devises are items such as breast implants, pacemakers,
heart valves, etc. A Class II device that is implantable is, as you seen
from the FDA, an implantable radio frequency transponder, RFID chip.
From breast implants, to pacemakers, to RFID chips which one is the only
possible one that can used for the stated purpose in section B which
is, “for linking such data with the information included in the
registry”? As we know from subsection A, the information in the
registry is the name of a device. In plain speak, we are in a clear way
being told that our electronic medical records are going to be linked to
a class II implantable device!
http://www.fda.gov/downloads/medicaldevices/deviceregulationandguidance/guidancedocuments/ucm072191.pdf
"implantable radio frequency transponder system for patient identifi...cation and health information."
Page 1004 of the new law (dictating the timing of this chip), reads,
and I quote: "Not later than 36 months after the date of the enactment"
H.R. 3200 section 2521, Pg. 1001, paragraph 1.
"The Secretary shall establish a national medical device registry (in this subsection referred to as the ‘registry’)
to facilitate analysis of post-market safety and outcomes data on each device that— ‘‘is or has been used in or on
a patient; ‘‘and is— ‘‘a class III device; or ‘‘a class II device that is implantable, life-supporting, or life-sustaining.”
A class II implantable device is an "implantable radio frequency transponder system for patient identification and health information." The purpose of a class II device is to collect data in medical patients such as
"claims data, patient survey data, standardized analytic files that
allow for the pooling and analysis of data from disparate data
environments, electronic health records, and any other data deemed
appropriate by the Secretary."
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act:
Class III devises are items such as breast implants, pacemakers,
heart valves, etc. A Class II device that is implantable is, as you seen
from the FDA, an implantable radio frequency transponder, RFID chip.
From breast implants, to pacemakers, to RFID chips which one is the only
possible one that can used for the stated purpose in section B which
is, “for linking such data with the information included in the
registry”? As we know from subsection A, the information in the
registry is the name of a device. In plain speak, we are in a clear way
being told that our electronic medical records are going to be linked to
a class II implantable device!
