Thread 513239307

Didn't need to go to the store. I caught a fish and ate that too. Why does this make the economy seethe? Also my apple tree is so heavy that it's quite literally lying over now, I will have a quarter ton at least.

>>513239307 (OP)
i harvested my own ‘chrome.

>>513239307 (OP)
Cool, I ate some fig trees from my tree today, not the best yet, the ones at the end of August are usually better

>>513239307 (OP)
Stole a bunch of shit this week. Fridge is packed.

Also I got four five pound bags of King Arthur Baking Flour for $20 shipped from Amazon. I can make so much bread outta those babies. And I have a good twenty pounds of durum semolina for pasta too.

Bascially I visit the store for meat. Often it's cheaper and better than local "meat" from your butcher. Not always. But often enough. My standard weekly ration is two breasts of lamb, one air-chilled organic chicken, and a nice big pack of ham hocks. I slow roast the hocks and lamb in the oven on convect, 250 for like 3 hours. I do the chicken on its own. I use the chicken carcasse and ham hocks to cook up a stock in the pressure cooker. That's it. Sometimes I omit the lamb, I might do it every 2 weeks in the summer when it's too heavy. Also I have fish, usually 1-2 days a week.

The economy hates this. Lamb breast is like a garbage cut, ham hocks too. Chicken is a race to the bottom profit-wise, even for organic natural producers now. I benefit as the customer willing to buy the humble parts of animals. I also like beef cheeks. They are still chearp. You can put a beef cheek and a bottle of cheap wine in a slow cooker for a day and have a perfectly respectable mock beef Burgundy.

>>513239307 (OP)
Arete.

>>513239307 (OP)
>I harvested my own veggies today
well done anon! i wish i could have some land
so that i could grow stuff.

antisemite

>harvested my own ___________
People keep telling me I need to do this.
thanks for the motivational speech OP I guess

>>513239307 (OP)
>may I see them
Good for you bro

>>513239307 (OP)
i saw a doe and whistled to her while watering my own fruit trees and berry bushes god bless anon


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAFMtsEgPAo

>>513239307 (OP)

Makes apple juice, apple pies, apple sauce and eat that yummy shit, nigga!

I'm an apple dumpling man myself.

>>513242719
Deer mesmerized by "The sound of silence" played on a harp. Watch all 65 seconds, worth it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Xd8xq06FCw

>>513243142
ive seen it before but i will gladly watch it again thanks anon, the deer was mezmerised because i was whistling for my starlings i released a couple weeks ago im always whistling for them when i am outside these days im sure i look crazy but i dont care i just want them to visit me.

>>513239307 (OP)
Based, I caught a big ass Spanish Mackerel yesterday, got two beautiful fillets from it.

>>513243142
one thing i like about this video is the silence at the end is the best part in a weird way when she realizes the deer is behind her, and shes playing the sound of silence very fitting, anyway fuck the demiurge for trapping us in this physical hell AHHHHH!!!

>>513242826
I recently made apple sauce for my son, he had his wisdom teeth removed. I balked at the infant sized apple sauce packets he bought. Cooking the apples on a stove took forever, instead I'll use my pressure cooker. That thing is awesome, much better than a microwave (doesn't dehydrate shit, quite the opposite), cooks faster than a microwave or stove top, with minimal energy. Potatoes done in 10 minutes without boiling a gallon of water, just 1/4 cup of water and 15 psi of steam. I got it cheap used, it's like from the 1970s and I just bought a replacement gasket from ebay.

We also have a lemon tree and I'm about to try extracting pectin from the pith to make my own jams and jellies. And I'm a guy, the instruction book from the 1970s called me a lady. Genders back then, I cook more often and far better than my wife. And most world famous cooks are men too.

>>513243494
hey thank you from all of us for being a dad to your son, its very very hard in modernity and it means a lot

>>513239307 (OP)
>Why does this make the economy seethe?
It doesn't, it only makes the government seethe, you are being economically productive and self-sufficient.

>>513243435
You're a good anon. I wish you a long and happy life, and may the demiurge kiss your ass.

>>513243624
i was fucking around about the demiurge stuff im a devout christian man, this place cant have been built as a torture chamber its far too beautiful but i get your meaning anyway. i wish the same for you too anon

>>513239307 (OP)
You know you could get heart failure from growing your own veggies. The Gubmint said so.

>>513239307 (OP)
>I caught a fish and ate that too
You can't do that too much. PFAs make it dangerous to do more than a couple times a month, depending on your area. Basically all rivers and streams are contaminated now.

It sucks. I used to fish a lot when I was a kid and teen. It's a dead hobby now.

>I got four five pound bags of King Arthur Baking Flour for $20 shipped from Amazon
That's not a very good deal. You can get 5lbs of flour for like $2.50. You ended up paying twice that.

>Chicken is a race to the bottom profit-wise
I'm sure you have a reason for saying this, but I'm still going to disagree.

Here's the deal. If you have enough land to fish and grow crops, then you probably have enough to set up a basic chicken farm. You can get an egg from each chicken once every day or two. When they stop producing eggs, you put them on the chopping block. Save an egg every so often so you can get another chicken. You can feed your chickens table scraps. Whatever they don't eat, you can rake onto a compost heap. Plants love egg shells, so save those to use with your plants, too. Also, grow some corn. You can eat it, or feed to your chickens, which can then in turn feed you and feed your garden.

Like I said, I have no idea why you said that but chickens are high yield and synergize very well with your garden and dietary needs.

>>513244270
>You can't do that too much. PFAs make it dangerous to do more than a couple times a month
Not in my local area, I'm in the blue.

>You can get 5lbs of flour for like $2.50.
This is the organic stuff, unbleached.

>I'm sure you have a reason for saying this
It's because chickens do fine when raised organically and profit-wise it's worth it because they are worth it.

It's not worth it to farm chickens. I just eat one a week, it's about $10-12 for a five pounder, air-chilled organic, at any Wal-Mart.

Pork bellies, tongue, cheeks. I will do fine on the humble meats.

>>513245688
>This is the organic stuff, unbleached.
$2.43 for a 5lb bag:
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-All-Purpose-Unbleached-Flour-5LB-Bag/178921158

>Pork bellies, tongue, cheeks.
That's all literally a nigger diet. They gave shit like hamhocks, gizzards, and all other organ and trash meats to niggers because they didn't want to feed them real food.

>profit
If money is the issue, move to the city. You get paid much more because the cost of living is higher, and cities are where wealth is generated anyways. You're not going to convince me that living in the sticks, growing tomatoes, eating PFAs, and refusing to actually do any of it right by synergizing your setup is smarter than simply moving to the city and getting a job that will pay you way more than whatever buck strickland is paying you now. And yes, rent is higher but it's offset by being paid more. You also don't need a car if you move to the right city, which leaves you with even more money. No paying for gas, insurance, maintenance, tire rotation, oil changes, license plates, vehicle registration, driver's license, the price of another car when the old one shits the bed, or any of the other bullshit. You can just walk to work or the store, and you can even do it high or drunk. Never underestimate the power of a walkable city.

>>513239307 (OP)
Based and homestead pilled.

>>513246928
No no I need bread flour, high protein, 14%. And it has to be unbleached and organic.

>That's all literally a nigger diet.
Niggers learned how to eat all this from the Scots-Irish.

>If money is the issue, move to the city.
I'd need twenty million dollars to buy the same amount of land and another twenty million to make it work as hard for me. You can't buy independence. You have to cultivate it. Why do you think all the Founding Fathers had estates? Because if they wanted corn or taters or carrots, it was right there and free. It just grew naturally on their estates like it does on mine.

>>513239307 (OP)

Google "Homer Davenport Saltville VA American Spin" for a good article about a guy who was a local legend in the area where I grew up. As a friend said once, "The whole family is good people, tough as nails, give you the shirt off their back...but don't ever cross them. Don't ever fool around with any Davenport."

I believe that is true. I wish more people knew about this guy and his story. He actually showed up in a book called Walk Across America that made a big splash, and Homer became briefly famous, which he disliked and avoided.

He lived outside the tiny town of Saltville, which he thought of as Sodom and Gomorrah, and avoided except to trade pelts and buy flour and salt.

>>513248170
They pushed pressure cooking for a long time to save on electricity and gas. It's good... for some things. I do my stock in a pressure cooker, keeps the vital smells and aromas in.

>>513239307 (OP)
Very cool anon!

>>513247314
>protein
If you need protein, eat more chicken and nuts. You'll get way more from that than from bread.

>I'd need twenty million dollars to buy the same amount of land and another twenty million to make it work as hard for me. You can't buy independence.
Why would you need to buy land in the city? Live in a cheap apartment for a decade while you save up. Then you can afford to buy up whatever worthless land you want in the sticks, if that's really your goal.

>Why do you think all the Founding Fathers had estates? Because if they wanted corn or taters or carrots
And because they didn't have walmart to deliver groceries to their front door?

Independence is a political issue. For the average man, it is merely a thought experiment. It's much more beneficial to reap the rewards of a fully functional and well designed society, as there are many more benefits to reap than what you'd find in the middle of bumfuck nowhere. But I understand if you just don't like society. In such a case, living in the wasteland is an unavoidable necessity, which means you have no choice but to like it.

>>513248840
>If you need protein, eat more chicken and nuts. You'll get way more from that than from bread.
I'm talking about the protein content of flours for the purposes of baking, bot.

>Why would you need to buy land in the city?
Why to have a comfy yard with my plants and greenhouse and etc.

>For the average man, it is merely a thought experiment.
How many faces on this here thing's top?

>>513248627
Interesting. I have a huge and thin walled cheap pot I use for stock. Here's a tip: bread machines are cheap to free because people get tired of them. I use mine just to mix the dough and then bake it in the oven in a bread pan. That way the huge ass paddle doesn't mess with the loaf, and the loaf has a proper dimension. The bread machine takes the mess out of making dough. I use it to make pizza dough too, I got a large pizza stone from AMZN and it works pretty well.

Terrified this thread will be exiled to /bant/ soon.

>>513249100
I don't like bread machine bread, it's overworked in the middle. Here's what I do - I take 5 cups of 14% bread flour, 2 1/2 cups water, and add it to yeast I activated with a bit of water, sugar, and a few grains of salt. Then I stick it in a huge bowl and stir the shit out of it for like 2 minutes. Then I leave it sit with a lightly dampened and floured towel on top, until it starts to get big, then I stir it again a few times. I ferment this baby for about a day or two. Then I flour a board and turn it out and roll it into a sort of natural sausage and cut it in half, and throw one half in a Pyrex 1 7/8ths cup loaf pan after 2-3 minutes kneading. Then the other one goes in the fridge, it is good for a week or so. Just plop it into a loaf pan lol.

>>513249429
Again, I don't bake it in the machine. I just use it to mix the dough. I then put it in a bread pan and bake it. But you're right on one level: it doesn't do a great job of kneading the dough. Sometimes I'll run the dough cycle twice for good measure.

Have you ever tried to propagate your yeast? I had success for a while but lost my touch, and the colony just dies after one batch.

>>513249066
Whoa

>>513249066
>I'm talking about the protein content of flours for the purposes of baking, bot.
I understand what you're saying but I'm saying you shouldn't turn to bread at all if protein is your goal.

>Why to have a comfy yard with my plants and greenhouse and etc.
You can still have a yard in the city. This is the problem with bumpkins. They think cities are just one giant slab of concrete to build train tracks and skyscrapers on. I live in the city and I grow tomatoes, strawberries, blueberries, and green onions in my backyard. It's been too hot to weed it lately though, so the grass and weeds have completely taken over one side of the garden. But as soon as it cools down, I'm going to save whatever plants I can and setup some raised beds to put them in. I can't wait to put my pickaxe to work again.

>How many faces on this here thing's top?
Not going to bother, but I'm guessing whoever made it lived in a walkable city.

Checked btw.

>>513239307 (OP)
Nigger