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Hunting & Gathering

The hills and gullies around are an abundant source of wild animals, fruit trees and other things suitable for eating.

Mushrooms
melisa
Mushrooms
I never thought I'd be eating mushrooms off of the front lawn, but they are edible, big and tasty....and couldn't go to waste.
11 Apr 2011
Eating Mushrooms
Melting Beeswax
olmec
Melting Beeswax
I hate to see anything go to waste so with the fire going to heat the bath I remembered the deserted beehive with the exposed comb.

Crushed up and sitting in an iron pot near the fire it slowly melts down. Once I have skimmed off the impurities perhaps I can make a candle...
11 Nov 2011
Hares
Eel for protein
olmec
Eel for protein
When I discovered there was a rather seizable eel living in one of the pools down in the creek I could think of no better use than chook protein.
After several failed attempts to trap this slimy beast I resorted to the old fashioned spear and soon had him chopped up into chunks for the chickens. Yum!
26 Dec 2010