Yazan: Andy Hamilton | 14 August 2011 | 22 Comments
Categories: Budget living, foraging, Fruit growing, Herbs, Home Brew, Homemade, Wild foods
Despite the long lonely days (and sometimes nights) with just a keyboard for company, the occasionally twinge of RSI, the days of procrastination and the slow withdraw from everyday life, I love being a writer and especially a non-fiction writer. One of the main reasons is that I get to choose what to write about [...]
Yazan: Andy Hamilton | 07 July 2011 | 4 Comments
Categories: Homemade, Recipes
When you get in from work and want to put your feet up with a cuppa you can’t beat having some cheese and crackers to go with it. But why keep buying crackers when you can make very tasty ones at home? This recipe is a very easy one to follow so there should be [...]
Yazan: Dave | 14 September 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Budget living, Homemade, Recipes, Reference
How to soft boil and hard boil eggs There are a few ideas on how to boil eggs, you may want to experiment with some until you find the one you feel comfortable with. Remember that eggs straight from the fridge and placed in boiling water will crack. How to soft boil eggs Traditional method [...]
Yazan: Andy Hamilton | 30 October 2009 | 1 Comment
Categories: Enivronmentally friendly, Homemade
Extract from Selfsufficientish Bible You can use a range of plants for home dying. Clothes that are dyed with natural dyes should not be machine washed as the colours can run. Before dying, treat the fabric with a mordant to fix the colour. 1. Soak the garment for at least 2 hours in a mordant [...]
Yazan: Andy Hamilton | 29 October 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Enivronmentally friendly, Homemade, Ishers Tips
The subject of face masks and making your own beauty products recently came up on our message forum. One of our members Manx minx posted a few of her recipes for making organic face masks, she gave her permission for us to put them up so here they are. Dry Skin mask | Honey Face [...]
Yazan: Andy Hamilton | 10 October 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Homemade, Recipes, Wild foods
I was first introduced to the delights of haw jelly when it was given as a present from the secret selfsufficientish santa (a yearly tradition on our web forum) a couple of Christmas’s ago and I have loved the stuff ever since. Pretty easy stuff to make. The recipe that I use is inspired by [...]
Yazan: Dave | 14 September 2008 | 1 Comment
Categories: Homemade, Recipes, Wild foods
This year I have moved to a house backing onto quite a wild area of land that has a huge apple tree growing about 30 yards from my house.. I decided to make the most of it and strip it of as many apples as I could carry to not only make cider but also [...]
Yazan: admin | 06 July 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Home Brew, Homemade
Simon has been a friend of mine and Dave since we were teenagers living in Northampton. He now lives in Wookey Hole with a bunch of animals that he has inherited. He has Sloes and various other fruits and berries growing in his back garden. Simon is also a chainsaw artist – have a look [...]
Yazan: admin | 01 July 2008 | 4 Comments
Categories: Enivronmentally friendly, Homemade, Nevs tips
Over the past 20 or more years I have been involved in many aspects of self sufficiency, but by far the most difficult to come to terms with has been replacing the humble refrigerator, with something simpler, home made and not tied to the 240v power grid. The two most obvious choices that spring to [...]
Yazan: Andy Hamilton | 30 June 2008 | 2 Comments
Categories: Home Brew, Homemade, Recipes, Wild foods
Although we already have an elderflower cordial recipe on our elder article it is one for making it in bulk. I decide that as I have just made a smaller batch of elderflower cordial, some elder flower champagne and our forum is buzzing with talk of elderflower wine it would be good to put up [...]
