Category: LifeSkills

That’s No Forest!

by Suthenboy | May 7, 2019 | Economy, Environment, LifeSkills | 167

How Suthenboy plants trees for fun and profit.

I Can Pickle That!

by Tulip | May 6, 2019 | Cooking, Food & Drink, LifeSkills, Recipes | 205

Summer is coming and Tulip has some great ideas.

What’s It Like to Be Minimalist?

by Trials and Trippelations | Mar 26, 2019 | Family, LifeSkills | 278

Firstly, what is Minimalism? Minimalism is a value system that at its root is a focus on things we...

Retirement

by Fourscore | Mar 15, 2019 | Advice, Family, LifeSkills, Musings | 241

A retirement journey.

Q’s Brain Toilet

by Q Continuum | Feb 25, 2019 | Fun, Harambe, KHAAAAAANNN!!!, LifeSkills, Musings | 147

Abandon all hope ye who enter Q’s mind!

The Harvest – Making Wine

by kinnath | Jan 17, 2019 | Brewing, Food & Drink, Fun, LifeSkills, Pastimes, Wine | 121

So how do we make wine?

Employment Survey 2019

by SP | Jan 16, 2019 | Economy, LifeSkills, Markets, Poll, Society | 399

Hi ho, hi ho.

Enslaving Yeast – Brewing an All Grain Beer

by Nephilium | Jan 13, 2019 | Beer, Brewing, Drugs, LifeSkills, Pastimes, Products You Need, Science | 109

At long last, how to turn grain, flowers, yeast, and water into beer.

The Basics of Self-Sufficiency: Do-it-Yourself 101 – Appliance Repair

by SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr | Jan 8, 2019 | Advice, Liberty, LifeSkills, Right to Repair | 225

trshmnstr shows you how to DIY

Bee Business

by Fourscore | Jan 3, 2019 | Food & Drink, Fun, LifeSkills, Pastimes, Prepper | 142

Fourscore spills all his honey secrets.

Enslaving Yeast – All Grain Beer Part 2 – Bittering agents

by Nephilium | Dec 30, 2018 | Beer, Brewing, Drugs, LifeSkills | 319

On to another ingredient that’s used in beer. Hops (and herbs).

Working Your Wood with McGinty – Picnic Table

by I. B. McGinty | Dec 18, 2018 | LifeSkills, Pastimes | 150

It’s time for another woodworking project!

Enslaving Yeast – Extract Beer

by Nephilium | Dec 16, 2018 | Beer, Brewing, Cooking, Food & Drink, LifeSkills, Pastimes, Products You Need, Recipes | 83

It’s here! It’s finally here! Today you can learn how to make beer.

Making Cider

by kinnath | Dec 15, 2018 | Brewing, Food & Drink, LifeSkills, Recipes | 162

Most Americans have no idea what cider really is…

Enslaving Yeast – Mead

by Nephilium | Dec 9, 2018 | Beer, Brewing, Drugs, Food & Drink, LifeSkills, Recipes, Vegetarian | 147

Nope, still not talking about beer yet. Time to move up the difficulty level. What can we make next? Why not the drink of kings and vikings: mead. What is mead? It’s essentially a honey wine, with a lot of variables that can change the flavor.

Enslaving Yeast – Wine

by Nephilium | Dec 2, 2018 | Brewing, Cooking, Drugs, Food & Drink, LifeSkills, Pastimes, Products You Need, Wine | 113

Today, we learn how to let grape juice turn into something alcoholic that can taste much better. Eventually I’ll get to beer, I promise.

Waiting is the hardest part

by kinnath | Dec 1, 2018 | Brewing, Food & Drink, LifeSkills, Recipes | 131

There are many roads to success in brewing. Follow kinnath down this one.

Enslaving Yeast – Cider

by Nephilium | Nov 25, 2018 | Beer, Brewing, Cooking, Food & Drink, LifeSkills, Products You Need | 108

So you’ve got this equipment sitting around, what can we do with it?

UnCivil Learns From Glibs

by UnCivilServant | Nov 20, 2018 | LifeSkills, Pastimes | 162

UnCivil sees if interrogating fellow Glibs is a workable method of learning useful skills. The only way to test it is by doing. And here is the result.

Legend of the Fall (or, Now For Something Completely Different)

by Animal | Nov 16, 2018 | Guns, LifeSkills, Musings, Outdoors | 216

Gravity is a harsh mistress. Buckle up while Animal gives you a few examples of just how harsh gravity can be.

You know it

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