Finally, despite the cool and wet summer, my peppers are producing.  I purchased what I thought was a standard green pepper.  However, as ...

Photo Source: Wikipedia 15 years ago, our family moved into a small 540-square-foot summer cottage on Long Island, NY.  We lived just two b...

J. Scott Applewhite, Associated Press Are you prepared for an earthquake?  Do you know what to do before, during and after an earthquake.  ...

I've had several requests for copies of this worksheet recently.  Some readers, unfortunately, are not able to access the google docs PD...

I'm getting ready to teach a course on starting a three-month supply.  Though I don't advocate recipe sharing when developing a pl...

Photo belongs to the author of this blog.  Please do not use without permission. I've been heavily involved with our church pioneer tre...

Tonight, our water has been turned off.  Our city is doing some sort of maintenance on the system and we were notified via notes on our door...

This is a picture of my current solar cooker.  It is a hybrid Windshield Shade Solar Cooker based on models developed by Kathy Dalh-Bredin...

I tried solar cooking for the first time last Tuesday afternoon.  Let's just say things didn't go so well.  Five major lessons learn...

Are you waiting to find out how my solar cooking experiment goes? Well, so am I.  For living in one of the sunniest places in the United S...