Homemade Bread

I love me some homemade bread. I love the smell while it's baking, the taste of it after it's done. The fact that it's not that expensive to make and it's pretty healthy for me since it doesn't have all that extra crap in it. I recently started making more of it but my bread always dries out or gets moldy before I can finish all of it. So I decided to do some research on the topic, and share my findings with my readers :]

Start a 1-Acre, Self-Sufficient Homestead

Start a 1-Acre, Self-Sufficient Homestead: "Everyone will have a different approach to keeping a self-sufficient homestead, and it’s unlikely that any two 1-acre farms will follow the same plan or methods or agree completely on how to homestead. Some people like cows; other people are afraid of them. Some people like goats; other people cannot keep them out of the garden. Some people will not slaughter animals and have to sell their surplus stock off to people who will kill them; others will not sell surplus stock off at all because they know that the animals will be killed; and still others will slaughter their own animals to provide their family with healthy meat.

For myself, on a 1-acre farm of good, well-drained land, I would keep a cow and a goat, a few pigs and maybe a dozen hens. The goat would provide me with milk when the cow was dry. I might keep two or more goats, in fact. I would have the dairy cow (a Jersey) to provide the pigs and me with milk. More importantly, I would keep her to provide heaps and heaps of lovely cow manure to increase my soil fertility, for in order to derive any sort of living from that 1 acre without the application of a lot of artificial fertilizer, it would have to be heavily manured....."

Very interesting use of a plastic bottle : that's what one should call an invention.

How A Thousand Pounds Of Butter Becomes Three Days’ Worth Of Energy

How A Thousand Pounds Of Butter Becomes Three Days’ Worth Of Energy: "A dizzy­ing fall from grace is in store for the Penn­syl­va­nia Farm Show’s famed but­ter sculpture.

Through tomor­row, the thousand-pound work of art will be the star attrac­tion of the annual indoor agri­cul­ture fes­ti­val. Thou­sands of peo­ple have snapped pic­tures of the refrig­er­ated sculp­ture, which depicts a boy lead­ing his prize-winning calf through a county fair.

Next week, how­ever, a Juni­ata County farmer will uncer­e­mo­ni­ously dump it into a manure pit.

That’s because he’s turn­ing the sculp­ture into methane gas. One thou­sand pounds of but­ter, it turns out, cre­ates enough energy to power a farm for three days...."

Is It Possible to Live on Less?

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This guy makes some good points, but if you want to go to college, it's really fucking hard to live debt free.