Questions and Answers Feb 2013

Today, I ‘m doing a Q&A session with some of the many questions I get. Today, I’m covering whittling, food, and rabbit questions. Feel free to drop me a line at: db at floridahillbilly.com and I’ll answer your questions, and possibly include it in a future article. Here we go! Spoon Carving Questions: Tim – […]

Backyard Aquaponics – The Solar Power and the Pumps

Ive introduced my aquaponics project, talked about the magic of the bell siphon, and discussed my containers and what is in them. Now I want to go over the power system, the pumps, and moving forward. I’ve wanted to establish a 12v solar charging system for years, since I live so far south and have […]

Revisiting My choice in animals for “Urbansteading”

This is a repost of one of my first articles. I’ve gotten a lot of questions as to why I’ve chosen these, so thought I’d repost it to get it out there again.   Living 5o feet from another family makes certain choices VERY important. Your TV volume, height of your fence, amount of clothing […]

December 2012 Update

Lots of things are happening here at FloridaHillbilly.com! Just as I’m out of the woods from my hernia surgery, I get a nasty bout of kidney stones, and dealing with another one as I write this

Salt – An Over-looked long term storable and Brining 101

I gave a whole rabbit to SB a week or so ago, and he let me know a few days later that he ended up smoking it whole – something I’ve not yet tried, but wanted to do. One of the things that I was concerned with is that rabbit, being a rather lean meat (but not […]

My take on “Rabbit starvation”

Stumbling around, I came across a very nice website called The Wannabe Homesteader, and found some great info about starting tomatoes. The next day’s post was about rabbits, specifically, Why Rabbit Meat is Not The Best Survival Food. The author raised the question, “..should a person include rabbit meat as a back-up plan for survival situations? […]