Being a hillbilly, I whittle. Sometimes I’m just making shavings and sawdust, but from time to time, I make something useful. One of my favorite useful things to whittle is a wooden spoon. I won’t say I’m a pro by any means, but I will say that you can use some of them to eat […]
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Curry Powder from Preps and Making your own Hot Pepper Flakes
The weather here has been beautiful, though the nights have been less so, and have been driving down the water temps. Since I spend a lot of my time during the week in the water, I feel the cold. Last week, when the wife got home, she offered to make a nice hot meal to […]
Our First Month of Homeschooling
(This is another guest post by my wife, eb. Let her know if you liked it, so she’ll keep writing for FloridaHillbilly!) In mid-December, we, as a family, decided to homeschool our 9 year old daughter. DB wrote about the thought process and how this came about in an earlier post. As a quick recap, […]
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 […]
Backyard Aquaponics – The Containers and Their Contents
Ive introduced my aquaponics project, and talked about the magic of the bell siphon. Now I want to cover what I used for containers, the construction, and what went into each. Please keep in mind this is simply how I did it. There is no correct way, there is what works for you, and what […]
Backyard Aquaponics – Bell Siphon, The Magic of the System
In my previous post about the aquaponics system I’ve built, I mentioned something called a “bell siphon”, and called it magic. In truth it is simply science, but works so well and does so much with a very simple setup, that it may as well be called magic. What it does is allows water to […]
Backyard Aquaponics – The Intro
I grew up in and around nature, watching how Mother Nature developed systems of organisms that worked together in a fascinating symbiotic relationship. Anemones and clownfish, bees and flowers, humans and gut bacteria, and many others. One of my favorite systems is a
I’ve Lived Here Too Long
The weather is cold and wet here, I dread the thought of just getting out of bed, let alone actually leaving the house, or even doing something. Ok, so my idea of “cold” is anything below
Preparing your Rabbits for Lean Times
I was fortunate to run into Aaron of the InTheRabbitHole Podcast Monday night in a group meeting, and of course the subject of rabbits was talked about for quite a long time. One of the subjects we discussed was what to do in the event that the regular feed, in my case this meant rabbit […]
Guns or Butter?
With the current news, I thought it would be a timely topic to write about guns vs. butter. From Wikipedia: In macroeconomics, the guns versus butter model is an example of a simple production possibility frontier. It demonstrates the relationship between a nation’s investment in defense and civilian goods. In this example, a nation has […]