Lately I have been trying to learn new skills, such as saving seeds, preserving food without canning, etc. I grew up on a farm where we canned our vegetables and butchered our chickens and hogs. These skills have not been used in a LONG TIME!!
My sweet husband purchased a water-bath canner, jars, and the standard Blue Ball canning book to help me re-investigate the lost art of preserving food. He had purchased a case of apricots, hence the need to learn how to preserve this great gift!
I am finding there are a lot of others learning or brushing up on skills that have grown cold. “Getting back to the land” so to speak. It is a growing community that are learning to lean on one another in these tough economic times.
There is a new website I just discovered that has a great amount of information that I hope you will check out. It is called Food Storage and Survival. http://foodstorageandsurvival.com/ Right now they are having a huge giveaway of products we are familiar with. Besides the giveaway, there is a terrific amount of lessons that one can learn from.
Another great tool that we are learning to use is a dehydrator. It has been fun! So far we have made “cranberry muffins” and they disappear like they were cookies! The whole family is looking forward to what the next experiment might be.
Prudence is a word I have been studying and this word fits into my thoughts for today. Being “prudent” is a skill we ALL need to learn! Two verses of Scripture that I would like to leave you with today are:
| Proverbs 19:14 | House and wealth are an inheritance from fathers, But a prudent wife is from the LORD. |
| 1Timothy 3:2 | An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, prudent, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, |
God bless you in the adventure of learning new skills!
