Received: 2026-04-08 08:59:45
Pretty clever to use a curling iron. We just use an iron.
Aileen, yes, we have a mill. Got it in 2020. The oxygen removal packets are called oxygen absorbers. We get them either from Azure Standard (out of Oregon) or Amazon.
One trick we figured out was to fold over the mylar bag after filling it up and inserting one or two absorbers which removes most air. This makes it very tight inside, sometimes rock hard.
I've got to build some sort of greenhouse this year. I hate the frost (even last week) that interrupts starting off our various garden plants.
On Wednesday, April 8th, 2026 at 8:46 AM, someone wrote:
as to mylar bags and those oxygen removal things, we found that an easy way to seal the bags is with a hair curling iron
On Wednesday, April 8, 2026 at 06:44:55 AM PDT, someone wrote:
this is so great! I love garden volunteers. perennials are great too. our chives keep coming back every year. parsley is biennial which means it comes back for another year after the first planting. but then it self-seeds!
are oxygen packets the same as a desiccant? we have packets for what we dehydrate.
do you have a mill for grinding wheat berries? that sounds so neat! we have a food mill for making tomato sauce but that's probably different.
On Wed, Apr 8, 2026 at 9:12 AM wrote:
Tomatoes are usually easy to grow. Last year they started growing wild in the area where we compost. So I let that area alone and started a new place until that area started growing melons wild. So I started another new place. But potatoes have more calories so are far superior to grow.. we really need both for balance.
We also bought some various berry bushes. The past two years we had plenty of rain which gave us lots of wild blackberries. That's terrific for high quality nutrition.
Our dandy lions are now mostly going to seed, but we picked lots of them and have been making delicious teas with honey and jam.
As to rice and beans, or whatever you stockpile, mylar bags and oxygen packets that you put inside to remove the oxygen works well. It takes some practice and sometimes you don't get it all out. Just iron it closed and it lasts years.
Wheat berries last very long in mylar bags and need a mill to grind for making bread.
On Wednesday, April 8th, 2026 at 6:46 AM, someone wrote:
> Tara planted peas and onions recently. We also have blue, black and raspberry bushes. They bear fruit but not much.
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we planted peas. I'm not sure if they've come up yet.
We started artichokes. We've gotta move them to make room for the tomatoes and nasturtium starts. everything if getting bigger! (except for our green onions).
We bought some blueberry bushes and just planted them. crossing my fingers that they'll work this time. I put blueberries in my buckwheat porridge every morning.
On Wed, Apr 8, 2026 at 12:08 AM someone wrote:
I have several envelopes of various squashes. I think one might be spaghetti
On Tuesday, April 7, 2026 at 08:27:58 PM PDT, someone wrote:
Spaghetti squash is what we grow well here.
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Supply lines in collapse
yeah, we've talked about stocking up. I'd also like to grow more food. I have lots of potatoes at the other house but the mulch has kind of disappeared and they are visible above ground and maybe getting "sunburned" (poisonous)
I've mentioned "wilding", growing food out in the wild. Potatoes didn't work (wrong type of soil in the wild), wheat didn't work (varmits ate them). I haven't checked the carrots but where I put them, the river rose over them and I don't know if they survived. I'm planting peas now since theres tens of acres of wild (inedible) vetch peas so I'm hoping that peas can take over those acres.
I think I'll get more beans and rice since they pretty much last forever and easy to store.
I won't say more since the gov't has access to all emails
On Tuesday, April 7, 2026 at 07:39:43 PM PDT, wrote:
Supply lines in collapse
This video gives some aspects of the collapsing of supplies we have grown accustomed to in modern times.
If you plan to survive, I suggest you take a close look at your own situation and start preparing.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/RmvrR5VeIgoa
