>>1310385

The BIGGEST problem you're going to have is to realize exactly how much food you need to feed yourself for a year. 2 acres, all used for growing, depending on the zone may not be anywhere near enough. 5a or to 7a or so…. perfect. Higher than around 7 or lower than 5, royal pain in the ass. Higher than 7 I'm talking about 100+ temps in summer for 2-3 months straight or more when nothing grows and you're stuck growing all winter. Lower than 5a…. you're stuck with cold winter for 8 months and only have 4 months to grow. I'm in 5b and I have to produce all the food I need for the entire year in about 4 to 6 months, depending on the weather.

Learn all you can about Albrecht and put in to practice everything you can afford to put into practice ASAP. Logan Labs for soil testing is an absolute requirement. There are a FEW other labs that will test for micro-nutrients but you can NOT afford to skimp on those micros.

Chickens are a damn good idea…. keep enough that you can have eggs every morning. Feed them all the leftover scraps from your garden and do your level best to stay away from commercial chicken feed. Grow a few rows of dry corn and feed it to them in the winter if you must.

You don't have enough land to honestly raise your own pigs or cattle IMHO. Goats might be an option, milk them.

Assume that everything that's NOT from your farm is poisoned and eat accordingly. Do your research into bentonite clay for detox and baking soda and water for alkalinity- makes a great cancer treatment.

Fasting is one of the best things you can do for your own health. Be careful if you're drugged up though… fasting can really fuck your meds up. I recommend AT LEAST a week. 2-3 weeks isn't a bad idea. Hell if you're over weight fast until you're a normal weight again. Do some research into the longest fasts… I've read tales of 400lb people fasting until they hit 200lbs and it took a few months. It gets super easy after the first 3 days of hell.

Remember your body is simply a thermodynamic engine. Think of it as a little campfire that never gets very big. It can only burn so much fuel every day. If you feed it too much fuel it's turned right into fat.

One cabbage plant will make about 4-6 cups of sauerkraut depending on how big it is. Learn how to make sauerkraut from salt and cabbage, found in the book Root Cellaring by Bubbell or something like that. NOT canned sauerkraut….. the probiotics in the naturally fermented sauerkraut are super good for you.

Well this book is long enough. :)

>>1310713

People don't realize how vulnerable they are right now. Do you know how to use a scythe to cut grass? Do you know how to run a wheel hoe? Do you know how far apart common garden plants are spaced? Do you know what garden plants get along with each other and what plants don't? Do you know the role of flowers in the garden? Do you know the role of birds bugs, bees in the garden? Can you make even ONE part on a car? Can you sole your own shoes? Can you sew your own clothes without power? Can you cut your own hair without electricity? Can you sharpen your own knives without electricity? Can you make a bucket with things you find in the woods? The list goes on and on and on. I keep multiple reference books on multitudes of subjects and I've read many of them. I'm a jack of all trades by trade, also known as a handyman. Can you braze your own metal? Can you weld without electricity? Can you…. can you…. can you… the list goes on and on and on. Fortunately, many of these things are available to the common man in reference books and once you understand the basics. Once you understand that you're viewing these words thanks to the power of a light switched on and off…. understanding the end process becomes much easier. 010101100110001111001111 is all that this computer is made of at a very basic level. When you understand the relationship between paint roller speed and water spray, things become much easier to understand. Start at the very basics and the end result becomes much easier to understand.

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>>1311534

I love my restel hand grinder AND electric grinder. Other good hand wheat grinders out there as well.

>>1312406

$42 a gallon in western iowa. Been that price for years. Little jars are $12 for 1-2 cups though.

>>1313083

what about sourdough bread and organic home milled grains?

>>1313177

>Do you pray over your food? When it's prepared, as well as when you eat it. I wave my left hand in a circle over my plate with the intention to "protect me from any harmful effects that could be in my food… known or unknown".

I've thought that's why it's been so important to pray before meals.

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>>1313305

I reuse normal canning lids. So far on my 3rd year on some of them. The question you must ask yourself- Is the rubber covering ALL of the sealing part? If it is…. then you can reuse it. Also…. will it rust out before you use the food? And NEVER store canning jars with the rings on. I actually left rings on some applesauce jars and went to open them a couple years later and the sugars had sealed the rings on. Ended up giving myself a nice gash before I realized all I needed to do was run it under hot water to loosen the rings.

>>1313425

Also reminds me of the wood cutters in Sweden. They planted trees that they would never cut and they cut trees planted 7 generations before.

>>1313517

>I frankly don't want to go back to plowing with horses.

Don't need to plow. A good cultivator will do wonders for the land without plowing. I LIKE to plow but I don't NEED to plow.

I run a two wheel walk behind David Bradley. Works Great. Just set one up with 4 wheel weights, a ball lock single face clutch, and I have nearly all the attachments they sold for them new other than a cart, cordwood saw and a few rare ones. I also set up a chisel plow which I can sink 12" deep and run through the garden on my first pass. And I just have a loam. It's not easy because the way I have it set up it wants to keep going deeper so I need some wheels to keep it from going so deep. I run 5-15 ag tires. Once I got the ball lock clutch and hooked the chisel plow on the edge of some cement and started the puppy up it started burning out on the cement. I used to have a old style spring lock clutch but that thing didn't hold the power for shit. According to the Nebraska Farm Tractor Tests the DB in this configuration will put 3HP to the ground. I also put my disc on today, and was able to sink the disc into the sod up to the axles and pull right through, that was after chisel plowing. The Bradley is an awesome machine.

>>1313708

I currently live in a small town in flyover corn and beans horizon to horizon country. Beautiful black dirt zone 5a. My lot is 150x60 with 2.5 garages and a house with 576 conditioned sf plus a full basement and two porches. The rest of the property is all fruit trees and I have a 30x30 garden out in the backyard. Hoping to find another lot to farm soon. Was thinking about finding one this year but I didn't know if I could trust my Bradley so haven't actively looked yet.

You're lucky if your whole family has bought into gardening. My wife likes the idea but won't actually put anything into practice. Ugggg. So I grow lots of really good food that doesn't get eaten. However I grow for seed. Have a couple gallons of beet seeds in the basement already and a couple gallons of spinach seeds.

Oh by the way I plant everything on 30" centers so I can cultivate with my Bradley, which is 26" wide when it's set up axle end to axle end. I haven't actually cultivated with it yet because my garden is too small but it's possible. Would realistically need to run 36" rows my first year cultivating with the bradley though. I don't want to lose half a row because I was "just learning" how to run the damn thing.

>>1314323

>people dont realize that all flesh is grass - which means you gotta have hay to raise livestock - hay is the most important frm product

if you don't have the room to store hay inside look into hay stacks. they used to do it in montana with a hay slide which is really cool technology. Amazing how long hay will keep in a properly made stack and how little gets lost.

>breakfast

Breaking your fast…. kek right? I love it. Most people don't realize they fast every single night. Idiots. Another one is Sun Day Why the hell do you worship the sun? What's the fourth commandment? Honor the SABBATH. Hebrews 4:9. In any version other than KJV.

>>1314571

I have been getting toms for years. Didn't notice a change in the flavor though. We did try the other one they came out with that's also non-flouride and that's pretty good. I've tried straight baking soda, while I didn't mind I'm sure my wife wouldn't fly for that though.

If you're wondering who the hell this is I have gone by "village idiot" before however my board is at 8ch.net/1944/ now.

>>1314707

AMEN!

Sad thing is I'm 34. Not many people younger than I that are learning any of this shit.

It's sad that so many people have no idea. Take some gasoline and put it in an open container and put it in the sun for a couple minutes and then flick a lighter at it.

Lots of simple things to learn in little things.

>>1317101

Can your body handle sourdough bread made from home milled grain?

Stephen Leslie in his book Horse Powered Farming said that if current trends continue in 40 years there will be more horse powered than traditional farmers.

Yes I am the OP of the post you replied to.

>>1317317

When I had a hot tub I was on city water and did a drain and fill every 2-3 weeks. Only a 2 person tub so it was fairly easy. Never bothered with chemicals.

>>1317591

We have a deep larder. We eat out a lot but end up buying a lot of non-perishable groceries "because we'd like to have something"…. well the end result is a deep larder that we don't have to worry about food for awhile. Biggest problem here would be getting water though.

I had a bunch of sprouted potatoes in the basement. I pulled all the sprouts off and planted them.

Rumor has it that this is how you plant "disease free potatoes".

We'll see how well it works.

No eyes and no cut potatoes.

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>>1373097

I am pleased to report that all of my potato sprouts that were buried, most of them were 8" to 10" long, have sprouted little leaves on top. I left about 2-3" exposed out of the ground and the only ones having trouble are the ones that got black on the tip from touching the underside of the cardboard that was over the potato box to keep them dark.

Experiment successful and I will be able to eat the rest of the potato, without wasting it for eyes.

Also… the sprouts that I planted were all nice and fat, close to 1/4" in diameter.

Next year I will spread the potatoes out in the box and let them sprout before planting them.

Good to know about this little trick. AND the potatoes are "disease free"

>>1509429

Hard to give you advice when we don't even know what part of the world you're in.

Like another anon suggested, investing it in gold and silver would be a good idea, physical only.

I can buy a 3 bedroom house on an acre of land where I'm at for less than $50K. $500 a month will easily pay all your bills here, giving you 600 months, or 50 years without even using your social security or anything else.

Hope this helps to give you some perspective on what you can do.