Uncommonskills

A blog about the experiances, blunders, joys, and sorrows of living a hands on life. Living a hands on life is about learning to work for yourself, learning by doing, and growing with those around you. Here you will find blogs about cooking, gardening, crafts, woodworking, winemaking, brewing, homesteading, spinning, weaving, and all those other areas of life that create a complete person.

Saturday, September 29, 2012

Persimmons

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Persimmons seem to be an underused asset.  Yesterday I found an American persimmon loaded with fruit.  There was a little bit of fruit drop ...
Monday, September 24, 2012

The oppurtunity of drought

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I did not truly realize how bad the drought had gotten until I went to my little fishing hole.  My fishing hole with a place where 2 creeks ...
Friday, September 14, 2012

Kudzu, the miracle plant that ate the South

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If you are like me you have heard horror stories and seen disturbing pictures of kudzu.  Huge swaths of forest decimated by this one plant, ...
Thursday, September 6, 2012

What to do with rosehip syrup.

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A few weeks ago I posted an article on making rosehip syrup .  I mentioned that it was a good source of vitamin C and of pectin.  But one of...
Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Book Review "Small Scale Grain Raising" by Gene Logsdon

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Logsdon is one of the great voices of the homesteading movement.  This is a review of his classic "Small Scale Grain Raising" orig...
Thursday, August 23, 2012

I can scarcely call these things my own

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"I can scarcely call these things my own" is the motto of one of some of my ancestors.  To me, that simple motto strikes at the he...
Monday, August 20, 2012

Purslane, or Verdolagas an edible that deserves more respect

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I have always had a thing for wild edibles.  Even having foraged for years, it is still amazing to me that you can go outdoors, pick somethi...
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