RC Anderson, Ph.D. - WH6FQE
- Jun 25, 2019
- 5 min
#108 - Gardening Series Introduction
I have decided to start a garden back up and put my greenhouse back to use once again. I have a very small yard at my current house, so I have to garden a little differently than I have in the past. I know that a lot of other people live in cities and areas where they do not have a very big yard, so I decided to take you along with me on this journey so that perhaps I might be able to help someone else who has a limited garden area see that a garden can be acomplished just ab
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RC Anderson, Ph.D. - WH6FQE
- Jun 25, 2019
- 5 min
#107 - Which Canner Do I Need?
When someone is thinking about starting to use home canning to preserve their foods for long-term shelf-stable food storage they typically get overwhelmed with all of the various types of canners and styles available, but let me try to make ait a whole lot easier for you. Let's first start off with the different types of canners, and what makes them different from the others, and what they are used for. Water-Bath Canner The first style of canner we are going to look at is a
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RC Anderson, Ph.D. - WH6FQE
- Jun 23, 2019
- 5 min
# 106 - Can Canning Jars, Bands, and Lids be Reused?
I received a question from someone who noticed on a few of my videos that I use canning jars to store my tobacco in for long-term storage and cellaring. She asked if the jars, bands, and lids can be reused, or if they have to be replaced after each use. Her mother told her that she could only use them one time and had to keep purchasing new ones each time. This is actually a very good question that can cause some confusion because the answer is both yes and no. Basically it d
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RC Anderson, Ph.D. - WH6FQE
- Jun 18, 2019
- 3 min
#105 - Counting On Friends or Neighbors After SHTF.
A friend of mine made a comment on Facebook on one of my postings about what they were going to do when the grocery store shelves were bare. He commented that he would just come to my house because I have everything. While this was meant as a joke, it does bring up a very important point that needs to be discussed. After a major SHTF event happens, it is not advisable that you attempt to go to your frends or neighbors house for help for your family, unless this has already be
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- Jun 18, 2019
- 4 min
#104 - Dehydrator or Freeze Dryer? What's The Difference? Part 2 - Freeze Dryer
In the last posting I discussed Dehydrators, so this time we are going to talk wbout Freeze Dryers and what makes them so different from the dehydrator that everyone is so used to using in theor homes. Where a dehydrator worked by heating the foods up to high temperatores over a long period of time to force the moisture in the food to evaporate, a freeze dryer accomplishes the same task by doing just the oposite. A freeze dryer takes the food down to a temperature of -30 degr
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- Jun 18, 2019
- 2 min
#103 - Dehydrator or Freeze Dryer? What's The Difference? Part 1 - Dehydrator
Many people mistakingly believe that there basically is no difference between a food dehydrator and a food freeze dryer. Allow me to clear up some misconceptions that confuse a lot of people. Let's take a look at the food dehydrator first since it is the most common form that many people have used in their homes for many years. When it comes to emergency preparedness, dehydrated food is not considered long-term food storage becuase dehydrated foods only have a shelf-stable li
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RC Anderson, Ph.D. - WH6FQE
- Jun 17, 2019
- 5 min
#102 - When The Shelves Go Empty, What Are You Going To Do?
Everyone believes that the convenience of being able to simply go to their local grocery store to pick up their food will never go away. But what the do not realize is how intricate the food supply system actually is, and therefore how delicate and suseptible to interruption it is. Grocery stores in your cities and neighborhoods have plenty of foods on their shelves because of one reason, they constantly receive resupply shipments many times a week if not on a daily basis. Th
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