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Who's taking advantage of canning season?

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Dirt Murphy

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This time of year is what my family calls canning season. It's that time from mid-summer into fall when the harvests come in thick. So far I've canned beef stew, vegetable soup, corn, green beans, and tomatoes.
Is anyone else canning?
 
Pole Shift Princess said:
Cindy your moving to W Kansas? That's great news!
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I guess. We are so wore out! My husband is taking a load again today. We are having a moving company move the house but we have so much outdoor stuff, this is the 2nd load of outdoor stuff on the truck with a trailer. He has a friend that builds fence and is meeting him there. 7 hour drive with a full truck and trailer. You never know how much stuff you have until you move and being preppers of a sort, we have tons of stuff! If anyone is a praying sort, pray he has a safe trip with no unexpected problems.

Our old place is 10 acres, partly because we are old, we just can't keep up and wanted to prepare a place for the kids and grandkids when/if the grid goes down. New place is only 2.5 and needs fencing. Did not want to move to Colorado, too far and too many rules. We are used to being able to do what we want, we build what we want, we keep animals that we want. New place has no fencing so that has to be done before we can move the goats. We had to cut way down on goats - from 51 to now just 12. You know of Bear Independent? He said people ask how does he prep for meat and he said he likes to keep his meat on the hoof.
 
The new place is 2625 elevation, not high enough but closer to high elevation and ECDO theory said 2500 elevation is good enough. Ben's 'score' would still put us a 'medium' risk. We are way in the interior of the US, no trees for forest fires - I always considered that a big risk with potentially no ways to put out big fires, I'd rather risk a grass fire than a forest fire, not near any volcanoes but water is a concern. It's a teeny tiny town, population is 23, but it has city water. There is a lake but it's 10 miles away. Wouldn't want to have to go that far for water! I got a book on finding and prepping for water, hoping it has ideas.
 
I've recently started dowsing. It works really well!
Being in Kansas, you may be able to put in a driven well. I posted a link in the Library thread about The Home Water Supply: How to Find, Filter, Store, and Conserve It by Stu Campbell. It's an older book but is fairly comprehensive and readily available.
My partner and I are also moving, and at the moment, water is one of our main concerns. I dowsed a little over a week ago to figure out where potential water lines will need to be run before putting in fencing and a barn.
 
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