Author Archives: Slocum's Creak

Just a word of warning. If you deal with air compressors on or around the homestead or really anywhere else, just because you shut the air off or shut the regulator down it doesn’t mean there is no pressure left in the line. A lesson I was reminded of today. I couldn’t get the waterContinue reading “Air line pressure regulators.”

  Ok, I have to admit some of my posts are out in left field.  This is one of them. Earlier today I stumbled across a video of someone growing a new plant from a green banana.   There are of course lots of phony videos out there and while this one could be, itContinue reading “Banana tree.”

  Untill recently I hadn’t realized that huckleberries were an actual berry. I just assumed it was the name of a cartoon character. Huckleberry Hound. Or perhaps Huckleberry Finn.. Lol In any event it is an actual berry and from what I’ve read they are good eating. I of course do not know this personallyContinue reading “Huckleberry”

20221106_123452_1_1 A short video showing how I am getting some food to regrow from scraps. While I am quite serious about regrowing food from scraps and finding other way to secure food, I’m finding there may be a bit more of a learning curve than I first thought. While I have a container with greenContinue reading “Another growing food from scraps post.”

  I had originally started this post last season but time got away from me and most of my seedlings were eaten by mice and much of the rest of them didn’t produce much of anything for us.   However this year I’ve already started some seeds and they look to be doing well soContinue reading “New seeds to try.”

  Until my blog post the other day. I’d never considered eating acorns, I had thought about it many years ago but I was told they would make you sick if you ate them when I was young. They have a lot of tannin in them that needs to be removed before you consume them.Continue reading “Eating acorns”

If your building a raised bed or filling several larger containers to grow in you’ll need to figure out how much soil you will need. Unless you already know how much soil to get or unless of course you’re using your own soil.then you can just shovel it in till you’re done. If you’re buyingContinue reading “How much soil do you need?”

I had plans of uploading the video directly so you wouldn’t have to follow a link. Sadly however the device I recorded it with bricked on me and I’m not paying youtube for the privilege of downloading my own video. Anyways, this shows how I prepare cans to start making heat risers for pop canContinue reading “Watch “Heat riser for a solar pop can heater” on YouTube”

I have posted before about my compost piles but I haven’t really said much about composting itself. Personally I compost pretty much any and everything that will break down. Even many of the things that are not reccomend to be composted. For meats and other things they say not to compost, I dig a holeContinue reading “Composting.”