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©2012 Shanna Ohmes Fermenting foods has been a part of food preservation for thousands of years before modern canning and freezing methods became available. Fermenting foods increases the nutritional value, is easy to do, uses little resources and increases the good bacteria back into your intestinal tract. What is Fermentation? “Fermentation is the transformative . . . → Read More: Fermenting and Preserving Food without Freezing or Canning  Leave a comment  Canning and Preserving, Home, Homestead Kitchen, Pantry and Cellar, People  fermentation, Fermentation Workshop with Sandor Katz DVD, fermenting foods, food fermentation, preserving food, Preserving Food without Freezing or Canning, Sandor Katz, self-sufficiency, The Gardeners and Farmers of Centre Terre Vivante, Wild Fermentation 
©2012 Shanna Ohmes The Martin Luther King Middle School in Berkeley, California has a program inspired by Alice Waters to teach students how to grow their own food. It’s an edible school yard on a one acre garden. This program teaches students how to grow their own food, tend to it, harvest it, and . . . → Read More: Edible School Yard Garden Teaches 1,000 Students a Year about Food 
©2011 Shanna Ohmes Mullein is a traditional herb used for strengthening the lungs and is very specific for any breathing problem. It is also used for allergies or other sensitivities that cause your breathing to tighten. Whether its asthma, asthmatic tendencies, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) or emphysema, mullein is the herb that can . . . → Read More: How to Make a Mullein Infusion for Asthma and Lung Health 
©2011 Shanna Ohmes I’ve had lots of requests for information on permaculture and found this webinar series on YouTube I wanted to share with you. In this video series, you learn that permaculture is the most important activity that we can do to provide for a sustainable future. It is a common sense system . . . → Read More: What is Permaculture? A video Webinar Series Intro to Permaculture Leave a comment Animals, Gardening, Home, Homesteading, Off the Grid, People, Permaculture, Self Reliance, Traditional Cultures, Urban Homesteading Against the Grain, Bill Mollison, Bill Wilson, chickens, Collapse, egg production, greenhouses, grow your own food, Homesteading, How to Grow More Vegetables Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagine, indigenous cultures, Introduction to Permaculture, Jared Diamond, John Jeavons, Midwest Permaculture, midwestpermaculture.com, pavement gardens, peak oil, permaculture, permaculture concepts, permaculture design, permaculture videos, permaculture webinar, rain gardens, raingardens, Richard Manning, Stephen and Rebekah Hren, suburban permaculture, The Carbon Free Home, topsoil, urban permaculture 
©2011 Shanna Ohmes For a limited time (5 days only), you can sign up for the Culinary Herbalism Course with K.P. Khalsa (President of the American Herbalist Guild) from LearningHerbs.com, where you can learn how to use everyday herbs and foods for healing. In this course, you will learn how to . . . → Read More: Culinary Herbalism Online Course with K.P. Khalsa 
We Are All Disconnected from Our Food and Our World—Joel Salatin Discusses Pathways to Relocalization Part 3 and 4 ©2011 Shanna Ohmes Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms is one of the few people in our world today that doesn’t just tell us what is wrong with our system, but lives and breathes the . . . → Read More: Joel Salatin—Pathways to Relocalization Part 3 and 4 One comment Animals, Business Ideas, Country Living, Home, Homesteading, People, Self Reliance baker, butcher, candle stick maker, cheese making, controlling market access, eating fresh, Everything I Want to Do is Illegal, food safety, Internal bacteria, Joel Salatin, nutrient-dense foods, Pastured Poultry Profits, Pathways to Relocalization, Polyface Farms, poultry, reduce energy, regulations on farmers, Salad Bar Beef, soap maker, USDA, village commerce 
We Are All Disconnected from Our Food and Our World—Joel Salatin Discusses Pathways to Relocalization Part 1and 2 ©2011 Shanna Ohmes Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms is one of the few people in our world today that doesn’t just tell us what is wrong with our system, but lives and breathes the solutions that . . . → Read More: Joel Salatin—Pathways to Relocalization Part 1 and 2 One comment Animals, Business Ideas, Country Living, Home, Homesteading, People, Self Reliance breastfeeding, carbon cycle, disconnected from our food, ebay, Everything I Want to Do is Illegal, farmstead economy, hippie movement, homestead economy, Industrial revolution, Joel Salatin, LaLeche, living without TV, local economy, local foods, Mother Earth News, new tribalism, Pastured Poultry Profits, Pathways to Relocalization, Polyface Farms, Salad Bar Beef, Slow Food Movement, Slow Money, solar energy, WWII Here is a video that was featured on the Texas Country Reporter show about David Hartwig and The Amazing Skidboot, a mischevious dog that was turned around by some simple training. This dog went on to inspire and amaze millions of people with his dog tricks. Below the video, I’ve included a link . . . → Read More: The Amazing Skidboot and How to Train Your Dog Leave a comment Animals, Animals and Livestock, Bookstore, Dogs, Home, People David Hartwig, dog training, dog tricks, Dove Cresswell, farrier, Hollywood North Dog Trainer, horseshoeing, how to train your dog, Leno, Letterman, online dog training lessons, Oprah, Pet Star, professional dog training, Puppy Training and Dog Training Online, Quinlan Texas, Skidboot, Texas Country Reporter, The Amazing Skidboot, train your dog 
I happened across this documentary last week on the Ovation channel. Joey Lawrence, or Joey L, is an amazing young photographer. In Faces of a Vanishing World, Joey leaves his home in New York to pursue his passion of photographing the last of the tribes that are on the verge of extinction. In this 1 hour . . . → Read More: Faces of a Vanishing World 3 comments Ethiopia, Home, Lower Omo Valley, People, Traditional Cultures Arbore tribe, Daasanach tribe, Ethiopia, Faces of a Vanishing World, Hamer tribe, Joey L., Joey Lawrence, joeyl.com, Karo tribe, Lower Omo Valley, Lower Omo Valley Ethiopia, Mursi tribe, Nyangatom tribe, Ovation channel, traditional cultures, traditional people, vanishing tribes 
©2010 Shanna Ohmes Learning how to spin wool and make your own yarn on the spinning wheel just takes a little time and practice. I remember when I got my spinning wheel years ago and basically taught myself out of a book and reading forums in the spinning community. Today, there are videos on . . . → Read More: How to Spin Wool One comment Bookstore, Crafts, Crafts and Skills, Home, People, Self Reliance, Spinning and Weaving How I Spin, how to dye yarn in oven, how to ply yarn, how to spin wool, how to spin yarn, how to use wool cards, how to use wool combs, Master Spinner, Rita Buchanan, spin cotton, spinning dvd, spinning fibers, spinning video, spinning wheel |
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