Join me as I start peppers & tomatoes! Check out which varieties I'm growing for 2023.
Mason Tops Sprouting Lids:
https://amzn.to/3KMfg1G
2" x 2" x 1" Grade N52 Neodymium Block Magnet:
https://amzn.to/3J0p6eQ
Organic Alfalfa Seeds:
https://amzn.to/3SFsI9h
Bottom 10X20 Trays:
https://amzn.to/3GKnepm
72 Cell Air Prune Propagation Trays: https://www.bootstrapfarmer.com/collections/plug-trays/products/airprune-tray-72cell
Humidity Domes:
https://www.bootstrapfarmer.com/collections/1020-trays-and-flats/products/humidity-dome
Pro-Mix BX Mycorrhizae Growing Mix 3.8 sq. ft.:
https://amzn.to/41ADrpy
Seedling Heat Mat: https://amzn.to/3IFaBvt
Greenstalk: https://store.greenstalkgarden.com/shop-everything/?smile_referral_code=BwQVsyCo&st_intent=st%3Areferrals%3Acustomer-offers%3ABwQVsyCo
The Grow Lights I use: https://amzn.to/3GLbPpy
MASTERBLEND 4-18-38 Complete Combo Kit Fertilizer Bulk (25 Pound Kit): https://amzn.to/3CtFFMt
PEPPER SEEDS:
Mystery Seeds X3 - https://peppercave.com/shop/ols/products/seeds-at-least-10-seeds-per-packet
Poblano X4 - https://peppercave.com/shop/ols/products/seeds-at-least-10-seeds-per-packet
Italian Pepperoncini X5 - https://peppercave.com/shop/ols/products/seeds-at-least-10-seeds-per-packet
New Mexico Big Jim X3 - https://peppercave.com/shop/ols/products/seeds-at-least-10-seeds-per-packet
Tam Jalapeno X5 - https://www.rareseeds.com/pepper-hot-jalapeno-tam
Lemon Drop X3 - https://www.rareseeds.com/pepper-hot-lemon-drop
Craigs Grande Jalapeno X5 - https://www.rareseeds.com/pepper-hot-jalapeno-craig-s-grande
Banana Peppers X5 - https://www.rareseeds.com/pepper-sweet-banana
Tabasco Peppers X2 - https://www.rareseeds.com/pepper-hot-tabasco
Cayenne Peppers X5 - https://www.rareseeds.com/pepper-hot-cayenne-long-thin
White Bell Pepper X6 - https://peppercave.com/shop/ols/products/seeds-at-least-10-seeds-per-packet
California Wonder Pepper X6 - https://www.rareseeds.com/pepper-sweet-california-wonder
Orange Bell Pepper X6 - https://www.rareseeds.com/pepper-sweet-orange-bell
Violet Sparkle Pepper X6 - https://www.rareseeds.com/pepper-sweet-violet-sparkle
King of the North X8 - https://www.rareseeds.com/pepper-sweet-king-of-the-north
TOMATO SEEDS:
Amish Paste X40 - https://www.rareseeds.com/amish-paste-tomato
Tomato White Current X4 - https://www.rareseeds.com/white-currant-tomato
Ground Cherry New Hanover X4 - https://www.rareseeds.com/ground-cherry-new-hanover
Aunt Molly's Ground Cherries X4 - https://www.rareseeds.com/ground-cherry-aunt-molly-s
Mortgage Lifter Tomatoes X2 - https://amzn.to/3KK4fOd
Thorburn's Terra-Cotta Tomatoes X2 - https://www.rareseeds.com/thorburn-s-terra-cotta-tomato
Rutgers Tomatoes X2 - https://amzn.to/3ICnXJ8
Tomato Great White X2 - https://www.rareseeds.com/great-white-tomato
Eggplant Melanzane Rossa Di Rotonda X2 - https://www.rareseeds.com/eggplant-melanzane-rosso-di-rotonda
Orange Accordion Tomato X2 - https://www.rareseeds.com/orange-accordion-tomato
Dad's Sunset Tomato X2 - https://www.rareseeds.com/dad-s-sunset
Blue Cream Berries Tomato X2 - https://www.rareseeds.com/blue-cream-berries-tomato
Pineapple Tomato X2 - https://www.rareseeds.com/pineapple-tomato
Purple Tomatillo X2 - https://www.rareseeds.com/tomatillo-purple
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Bug Out Bins: What's in mine? Check out what I keep in my car at all times
Items mentioned in this episode (most aren’t exact, as I bought these years ago):
Folding Snow Shovel: https://amzn.to/3XVcuKa
Roadside Assistance Emergency Kit: https://amzn.to/3ZaqOj7
Sterno 6PK: https://amzn.to/3KniJDA
Glow Sticks: https://amzn.to/3Ij25Ch
LifeStraw Personal Water Filter: https://amzn.to/3EtIwq1
Aquamira Frontier Emergency Water Filtration: https://amzn.to/41tICb5
Utility Rope: https://amzn.to/3km0DqX
Mylar Thermal Space Sleeping Bags: https://amzn.to/3EszBoO
72 hour survival food: https://amzn.to/41bkfPf
Activated charcoal packs: https://amzn.to/3IJ664i
First Aid Kit: https://amzn.to/3IJhtcA
Safety Goggles: https://amzn.to/3EstOPL
N95 Masks: https://amzn.to/3Sm4JM4
Nitrile Gloves: https://amzn.to/3kkkLd0
Bug Spray: https://amzn.to/3xKOFdE
Female Urine Funnel: https://amzn.to/3kc2KO9
Handcrank/Solar Weather Radio: https://amzn.to/3Ep77ME
Solar Lantern: https://amzn.to/3IlytnV
Tyvex Coveralls: https://amzn.to/3Z8DyGU
Hand Warmers: https://amzn.to/3xJE02Q
Insole Foot Warmers: https://amzn.to/3In7Sqp
Gasoline Siphon: https://amzn.to/3ILynqU
Zip Ties: https://amzn.to/3Kx4Tyq
Lysol Wipes: https://amzn.to/3lPM0wh
Travel Mug that heats up: https://amzn.to/3Shy7TW
Potassium Iodide: https://amzn.to/3IL0xT4
Rain Ponchos: https://amzn.to/3IGlbnj
Potable Water Tablets: https://amzn.to/3Z9UZXx
Canned Roast Beef: https://amzn.to/3Ssk1z5
Canned Coconut Milk: https://amzn.to/3IeIJOA
Sea Salt: https://amzn.to/3XPLXxV
Liquid IV: https://amzn.to/3IpIwbw
Pocket Wing Stove: https://amzn.to/3kgumSb
Neoprene Shoe Covers: https://amzn.to/3SmvnEB
Lighters: https://amzn.to/3IJsqe6
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No Knead Crusty Bread. Fast, Easy, and Delicious
Full recipe:
Ingredients:
3 cups all-purpose flour
2-3 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon dry yeast (active dry or highly active dry work best)
1 1/2 cups lukewarm water
Special cookware needed: Dutch oven or any large oven-safe dish/bowl and lid* Parchment paper.
Directions:
In a large bowl, stir together the flour, salt, and yeast.
Add the water and stir using a wooden spoon until the mixture forms a shaggy but cohesive dough.
Cover bowl tightly with plastic wrap. Let dough sit at room temperature for 8-24 hours. Dough will bubble up and rise.
An hour and a half before you want to eat the bread, preheat your oven to 450 degrees F. Place your Dutch oven, uncovered, into the preheated oven for 30 minutes.
While your Dutch oven preheats, turn dough onto a well-floured surface and, with floured hands, form the dough into a ball. Cover dough loosely with plastic wrap and let rest.
After the 30 minutes are up, carefully remove the Dutch oven. With floured hands, place the bread on a sheet of parchment paper and then transfer to the Dutch oven.
Bake for 30 minutes covered. Remove cover and bake for 7-15 minutes more, uncovered (just keep an eye on it as cooking times will vary).
Remove the bread and place on a cutting board. Slice and serve!
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18 of My Favorite Books on Prepping, Homesteading, and Foraging.
Study Bibles - https://amzn.to/3jneNI1
Country Beans by Rita Bingham - https://amzn.to/3X7oub8
The Four Ingredients Cookbook by Linda Coffee and Emily Cale - https://amzn.to/3X4GEdD
Solar Oven Cooking by Merry Bevill - https://amzn.to/3Hv2lOo
Preserving Everything: Can, Culture, Pickle, Freeze, Ferment, Dehydrate, Salt, Smoke, and Store Fruits, Vegetables, Meat, Milk, and More by Leda Meredith - https://amzn.to/3DDWaqa
THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO EDIBLE WILD PLANTS FOR BEGINNERS: A Guidebook to Foraging, Harvesting, Identifying and Cooking Essential Wild Food, Herbals by Geoffrey Richards - *I can’t find this anywhere but here* - https://www.abebooks.com/9798770292763/COMPLETE-GUIDE-EDIBLE-WILD-PLANTS/plp
The Encyclopedia of Country Living, 50th Anniversary Edition: The Original Manual for Living off the Land & Doing It Yourself by Carla Emery - https://amzn.to/3Dz7jZd
Back to Basics: How to Learn and Enjoy Traditional American Skills published by Reader’s Digest - bit.ly/3Y2R8vs
Prepper's Long-Term Survival Guide: Food, Shelter, Security, Off-the-Grid Power and More Life-Saving Strategies for Self-Sufficient Living by Jim Cobb - https://amzn.to/3X1NsbS
The Prepper's Cookbook: 300 Recipes to Turn Your Emergency Food into Nutritious, Delicious, Life-Saving Meals by Tess Pennington - https://amzn.to/3wRHdg2
The Independent Farmstead: Growing Soil, Biodiversity, and Nutrient-Dense Food with Grassfed Animals and Intensive Pasture Management by Shawn & Beth Dougherty - https://amzn.to/3HyCGUK
1001 All-natural Secrets to a Pest-free Property by Dr. Myles H. Bader - https://bit.ly/3DFEJp4
Farmers' Almanac 2023 - https://amzn.to/3HwMoXN
The Complete Guide To Herbal Medicines by by Charles W. Fetrow, Juan R. Avila - https://amzn.to/3kXQGjg
Amish Cooking by Publications International - https://amzn.to/3Yh89By
THE SECRETS OF UNDERGROUND MEDICINE by Dr. Richard Gerhauser, M.D. - https://amzn.to/3l8WczN
NATIVE AMERICAN HERBALIST'S BIBLE - https://amzn.to/3Dz9lbN
Dare to Prepare 6th Edition 2020 by Holly Drennan Deyo - https://amzn.to/3HyDNUq
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How to Make Soap Quickly & Easily.
My favorite “lazy” way to quickly and easily make hot process soap.
Equipment/Ingredients needed:
181 grams of Tallow - https://amzn.to/3RwYvZB or Coconut oil - https://amzn.to/3JDvTvC
126 grams of Lye (Sodium Chloride) - https://amzn.to/3lc0QNe
345 grams of distilled or reverse osmosis water
Kitchen Scale - https://amzn.to/3iLacyL
Immersion Blender - https://amzn.to/3HA4gAW
Crock Pot - https://amzn.to/3DFIB9v
Rubber Gloves - https://amzn.to/3HVF61l
Goggles - https://amzn.to/3HVFqgz
Optional:
Essential oils (1-1.5 ounces) to be added just before pouring into molds. - https://amzn.to/3HuRP9S
Molds - https://amzn.to/3X1kEjR
Instructions:
Put tallow or coconut oil in crock pot on low.
Put on your gloves, goggles, go outside, and add lye to water and stir. Try not to breathe the fumes.
Once water/lye is clear, bring back inside (careful, it’s hot!)
Turn off the crock pot.
Slowly add this water/lye mixture into the melted tallow/coconut oil.
Give it a stir and then use an immersion blender for about 10 minutes. Lean back, it can splash.
Once it comes to trace (looks like pudding), turn the crock pot back on to low. Stir every 15 minutes or so for 1 hour.
After an hour, it should look like mashed potatoes. If not, give it another 15 minutes until it does.
When you think it’s ready, take your finger, touch it to the soap and touch it to your tongue. If it “zings”, it’s not quite ready yet. Cook a little longer. Try again in 15 minutes. Repeat the zinging of the tongue test. Once it doesn’t shock your tongue (don’t worry, you’re not going to die), now you can add 1-1.5 ounces of essential oils if you choose. Stir it up good and immediately pour into molds/a pan, whatever.
Let sit for 12-24 before removing from molds or pan.
Let the bars sit for a day or two. That’s it! Then you can use them. Congratulations, you just made your own soap!
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Gab Business Highlight: Full Armor Farm
Today I’m showing some of the products I ordered from Full Armor Farm.
Go check out their gab profile: https://gab.com/FullArmorFarm
Full Armor Farm website:https://www.fullarmorfarm.com/
Full Armor Farm products: https://www.fullarmorfarm.com/products
Full Armor Farm recipes: https://www.fullarmorfarm.com/recipes
Full Armor Farm GabTV: https://tv.gab.com/channel/fullarmorfarm
#paralleleconomy
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How to Can Venison…or Pretty Much Any Raw Meat
Electric Pressure Canner (note, the description says 12 qts, but it is only 5 qts): https://amzn.to/3Xk5VRT
Wide Mouth Canning Jars (12 pk): https://amzn.to/3wbNkvF
Tattler Re-usable Canning Lids: https://www.reusablecanninglids.com/collections/all
Canning Accessories: https://amzn.to/3kt2RED
Questions? Comments? Email me at monicahandy@proton.me
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How to Grow Microgreens Part 1
10 Plant Growing Trays (No Drain Holes) - 20" x 10": https://amzn.to/3GKnepm
10 Plant Growing Trays (With Drain Holes) - 20" x 10": https://amzn.to/3X6VpNu
Premium Coco Coir Brick - 11 Pounds: https://amzn.to/3CtTn2d
MASTERBLEND 4-18-38 Complete Combo Kit Fertilizer Bulk (25 Pound Kit): https://amzn.to/3CtFFMt
Kitchen Scale: https://amzn.to/3iLacyL
True Leaf Market: https://www.trueleafmarket.com/
The Sprout House: https://sprouthouse.com/ *Their website seems to be down at the moment, but you can also order these on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3CWIfec
The lights I use in my indoor system: https://amzn.to/3GLbPpy
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Showing Off My New Worm Farm For Compost
Check out my new worm farm!
Where to buy products mentioned:
Uncle Jim’s Worm Farm: https://unclejimswormfarm.com/?affiliates=898
Worm Composters: https://amzn.to/3GsTE6B
Email me with ideas: monicahandy@proton.me
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How to Grow Plants in a Kratky Hydroponic System
Indoor Hydroponic Grow Kit 12 Holes: https://amzn.to/3GmX7n7
Gutter Hydroponic Systems: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1354586200/3x4-vinyl-downspout-x2-kratky-hydroponic?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=gutter+hydroponic&ref=sr_gallery-1-33&edd=1&organic_search_click=1
10 Plant Growing Trays (No Drain Holes) - 20" x 10": https://amzn.to/3GKnepm
10 Plant Growing Trays (With Drain Holes) - 20" x 10": https://amzn.to/3X6VpNu
10 Packs Seed Starter Tray Seed Starter Kit with Humidity Dome (120 Cells Total Tray) Seed Starting Trays Plant Starter Kit: https://amzn.to/3Qj2KHq
Premium Coco Coir Brick - 11 Pounds: https://amzn.to/3CtTn2d
MASTERBLEND 4-18-38 Complete Combo Kit Fertilizer Bulk (25 Pound Kit): https://amzn.to/3CtFFMt
5 Gallon White Bucket & Lid - Set of 6 - Durable 90 Mil All Purpose Pail - Food Grade: https://amzn.to/3Iua1Cp
Greenstalk tower (get $10 off): https://store.greenstalkgarden.com/shop-everything/?smile_referral_code=BwQVsyCo&st_intent=st%3Areferrals%3Acustomer-offers%3ABwQVsyCo
Pack of 12: Barrina LED T5 Integrated Single Fixture, 4FT, 2200lm, 6500K (Super Bright White), 20W, Utility Shop Light, Ceiling and Under Cabinet Lights: https://amzn.to/3GLbPpy
Abriselux A1500 LED Grow Light Dimmable with 4x4ft Coverage and Upgraded Larger Board, Full Spectrum Grow Lamps for Indoor Hydroponic Growing Light with High PPFD (Actual Power 150Watt): https://amzn.to/3GnHtYy
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