Web Spotlight: Pleasant Hill Granary

From their website: 

"For centuries whole grain has been recognized as "The Staff of Life." Modern industrial processing techniques strip virtually everything healthful from our foods — but you can restore nutrition and character to your diet, and the best place to start is with quality grains, freshly ground in your kitchen. We've chosen the grain mills below as the finest in the world based on their performance, versatility & durability — and the letters we receive from our customers about their new mills have consistently affirmed their outstanding qualities and value. Baking and cooking with whole grains is easy and successful with the kitchen tools & learning resources available at Pleasant Hill Grain" 

If you're looking for grinders, meat slicers, and other fine kitchen equipment, Pleasant Hill Grain is a great site to visit! Thank you to Bev for this great resource!

Pleasant Hill Grain Website

Web Spotlight: LDSPreppers.com

Here is an excellent resource for Latter-day Saints Preppers!! Thank you Netta for this great find!! One recent forum post is titled, "Culinary Herbs and Spice Home Remedies" - I like them already!

Take a look at the "10 Ways to Get Involved With LDS Preppers" for some start-up suggestions!

Or Register to become a member.

Here's the Homepage: http://ldspreppers.com

Web Spotlight: Heirloom Seeds - FREE GARDENING E-BOOK

MyHeirloomSeeds.com is an excellent resource to keep in your Bookmarks folder! But what I'm REALLY excited about today is the fact that they have a FREE E-Book called the Vegetable Gardening Encyclopedia and it's REALLY COOL!!!!!!!

It covers growing, freezing, canning, drying, and storing!!

Here's an Overview of each section:

PART ONE - The Garden
1. Planning Your Garden (Complete with pictures, area frost dates, etc)
2. Soil Amendments (adding things to make your soil the best it can be!)
3. Planting Your Garden (Spacing, seed depth, water needs)
4. Caring for Your Garden (Includes pictures and descriptions of common weeds!)
5. Keeping Your Garden Healthy (Weeds, pests, disease... all you need to know!)

PART TWO - The Plants
6. Vegetables (A-Z guide to all your favorite veggies!)
7. Herbs (An A-Z guide to all kinds of herbs, and how to grow them indoors and outdoors!)
8. Storing Vegetables (The Preserving method chart rocks!!)
9. Freezing Vegetables (All you need to know about freezing)
10. Drying Vegetables (One of my favorite ways to store veggies and fruits)
11. Sprouting Vegetables (THIS SECTION MAKES THIS WORTH A DOWNLOAD ALONE!!!!!!)
12. Storing/Using Herbs (A MUST have)


This E-Book is FREE and is chalk-full of extremely useful information. It includes 261 PAGES of gardening material. And did I mention it won't cost you anything? ; P It's in PDF format, and ready for printing.

Download the Vegetable Gardening Encyclopedia here.

Web Spotlight: StillTasty

How long will your favorite food or beverage stay safe and tasty? What's the best way to store it? 

Get the answer for thousands of items at www.stilltasty.com!!

This is a great site. Really really. However, take their word with a grain of salt. 

Take mayonnaise for example. It has an indefinite shelf life. 

Yes. Indefinite. 

Mayo for Eternity. 

However, the StillTasty website states 10-12 months. 

So Happy Browsing, with a grain of salt. : ) 

Laura

Web Spotlight: Emergency Essentials

“Helping People Prepare…for over 20 years. Offering Food Storage, Emergency Kits, Water Filtration, First Aid, MRE (Meals Ready to Eat), Survival Kits, Camping Gear, disaster preparedness and more! We are committed to serving you with over 900 products!" 

I will be forming an Emergency Essentials group to take part in their Group Buys Program each month. They offer several products each month for a discounted price if you buy over a certain number of the product. ALSO, they offer FREE SHIPPING on the items purchased in the group buy, as well as any other item purchased at the same time!

If you'd like additional information on the Group Buy Program through Emergency Essentials, visit this link: 

Group Buy Program

If you are interested in signing up to be part of the group buy each month (no purchase required every month) send me an email, or comment below. 

Happy Prepping!!

Laura