If you don't know how to use a pressure canner and would like to learn, this is a great video for you. Carrots are a real treat fresh from the garden, but that experience doesn't have to end with the harvest season. Carrots can be canned and preserved for the entire winter and into summer … Continue reading Pressure Canning Carrots and Pressure Canning Basics
An Inexpensive Solution to the Saggy Bookshelf
A few years ago, my wife and I were debating what to do about a bookshelf. We had already seen how our prefabricated store bookshelves and entertainment center would sag with time, and we didn't want to go through that again. I spoke to an amazing cabinet maker who could make for me the perfect … Continue reading An Inexpensive Solution to the Saggy Bookshelf
How to protect your memories… Use a Free External Hard Drive Case
What is an easy way to protect your external hard drive? Give it a case. However, most cases are designed to store your drive not to protect it while in use. In the video below, I teach you how to create your own external hard drive case for free. All you need is an ice … Continue reading How to protect your memories… Use a Free External Hard Drive Case
Top 5 Search Results over 5 Years; it’s our Blogiversary
Today is the official fifth year anniversary of Living a Sustainable Dream. In honor of our fifth year of blogging, I would like to share with you our top five most viewed posts over the last five years. These are the posts search engines recommended the most. 5.) “He who can does, … Continue reading Top 5 Search Results over 5 Years; it’s our Blogiversary
Fifth Year Blogging Anniversary and 10 Probing Questions
Recently amidst all the world's ails we were challenge to a collaboration with another channel, Breaking Free Off Grid. Generally, I don't usually do collaborations, but given the times we live in, I have a strong desire for a sense of community. It has been fives years since we started blogging, and our world has … Continue reading Fifth Year Blogging Anniversary and 10 Probing Questions
Home Cold and Flu Remedy…French (Basque) Penicillin Soup
In the following video, I demonstrate how to make an amazing root vegetable soup. This soup settles well on a weak stomach and warms a person from the inside out, helping to bust a fever. (Recipe Below Origin Story) Origin Story Years ago, I moved to a new location for a teaching job. I was … Continue reading Home Cold and Flu Remedy…French (Basque) Penicillin Soup
Amazing Affordable Homemade Salmon Burgers
Comparing the price of making your own salmon burger to the prepackaged frozen pucks at the store, there is no comparison in price and taste. In the post today, you will learn how to make your own amazing affordable homemade salmon burgers. Yum! See Salmon Recipe on can label below. Years ago my brother came … Continue reading Amazing Affordable Homemade Salmon Burgers
Emergency Lighting: Battery Powered LED Light Bulb
What is the best way to prepare for a power outage? There are so many things a person can do to prepare their home for when the grid goes down. Here is one more tool to help you during a brown/ black out. A few years ago, my cousin introduced me to a battery powered … Continue reading Emergency Lighting: Battery Powered LED Light Bulb
Whether to buy a Snow Plow or Not. (Saving Money when it doesn’t feel like it.)
When living in snow country, snow removal becomes a real issue. If snow is left to sit, it eventually becomes impassable even with the best 4 x 4 vehicle. Over the past 4 years, I invested in a "good" deal plow truck that has been nothing but repairs and headaches. This "good" deal has cost … Continue reading Whether to buy a Snow Plow or Not. (Saving Money when it doesn’t feel like it.)
Merry Christmas Eve
This year my wife and I have been searching for peace. We have been trying to slow things down this season. We have spent a couple evenings listening to the Christmas carols on our iPod, lighting the candles and lanterns around the Nativity scene, enjoying the quiet serene, discussing little of the day's troubles, and … Continue reading Merry Christmas Eve
