Cooking with Edible Flowers

Cooking with Edible Flowers: Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin A-223 is a much needed book. We all need to learn how to cook with and eat edible flowers. You never know when you might be in a situation where that is all that you have to eat!


Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.

Been So Busy

We have been so busy this past 2 weeks getting everything prepared and ready for homschooling this year. Have the extra bedroom all cleaned out to get it all set up. Have chalkboards, magnet boards, white boards, and bulletin boards ready to be hung. Books bought. Art supplies. Games. And tons of paper. My printer has been running non-stop printing out worksheets! So busy, but almost ready to start. The actual public school year starts on about August 11th here so I want to start around that time.

Anyone else homeschool and getting busy with all of the preps???

Prepper Beginner's Guide: How To Prep Your Ultimate Bug Out Bag for Disaster Survival was free when I wrote this post.

 How safe do you consider yourself in this ever changing world? With our limited understanding of how things work, whether in the natural world OR in human society alike, we can only predict a limited amount of disasters. But that does not mean we have to face them unprepared.

This guide was created to help you put together the ultimate survival bag or Bug out Bag (BOB) for when events get out of hand and you need to make your escape to a safer area (OR you just want to try your hand at survival camping for a few days).

The booklet is based on the personal experiences of a climbing and survival expert, and it is designed to help both first time preppers and more experienced ones in optimizing the content of their BOB.

The guide contains not only a list of necessary items and their characteristics but also survival tips on packing the bag, setting up camp, getting a fire started and much more.

To keep the bag as light as possible, all the items were considered based on their weight, functionality and durability. Both the items included and the methods described have been tested and put into practice numerous times and across different types of terrain.

Disasters can strike at any time so be prepared and have your Bug out Bag on the ready.

National Hammock Day - July 22nd!!

National Hammock day is coming up quick. Grand Trunk Goods is having a National Hammock Day Photo Contest. You could win some great prizes. Including your own Grand Trunk Hammock.

Prepared For Survival Cook Book

I put all of my recipes from this blog into a Kindle ebook - Prepared For Survival - Frugal Food Storage Recipes- it is only 99 cents and you can have all of the recipes in a convenient place. Frugal food storage recipes that will use your food storage in a way that will give your family variety without costing a lot. Food storage does not have to break your bank. You can do it frugally and eat well. I have added some recipes to the blog since I posted that book to Kindle , but I will update it soon with the new recipes.