I’ve had the opportunity recently to test out the new Five Gallon Pack around the farm. The owner of the company was kind enough to send us one to use for testing, promising we would find use for it.
The pack is popular with outdoor enthusiasts of all sorts – anglers, hunters, spelunkers and prospectors.
My hands were made more for typing so I found a more domestic use for it – harvesting this year’s sizable tomato crop. Continue reading
A well made chicken broth serves as the base for delicious soups, gravies and many other savory meals.
True bone broth is a deep rich gold, very different from the watery yellow liquid from the grocery store which tastes more like salt than chicken. After you start making your own, you’ll agree that the most delicious part of the chicken are its bones!
You can make broth with the bones of any animal – but chicken is the easiest. Pig or cow bones can take 3 days to cook down, but a chicken broth can be done in just 4 hours.
Once you start cleaning with laundry detergent crafted by your own hands, you’ll never buy overpriced detergents from the store again.
This detergent mix works well in high-efficiency machines and the older, less efficient ones. We have been using it for years at the apartment laundromat without any problems.
Based on my math, a typical 5 gallon bucket holds 0.71 cubic feet of anything you want. Filled with water, it will hold 42 pounds of the stuff, not counting the weight of the bucket (typically 2 pounds.)
That means for any liquid or semi-liquid food such as wine, beer, peanut butter, honey or cooking oils, just remember 42. Readers of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy may recognize this number as the ultimate answer to life, the universe and everything.
Once you start talking dry foods the weight really starts to vary.
This is a small list to get you started in planning for how many buckets you will need to store a given weight of certain foods. It also happens to be a great list to get you started in thinking about different foods that can be stored long-term!
We recently got a pair of complimentary Bucket Slings courtesy of the Circus Company which we are doing our best to wear out using them around the farm.
