Lacto-fermentation Part 2

[PinkyPhluff]

Thank you for sharing these 2 video-parts of your lacto-fermentation! My question is just: With all that salt - isn't there a risk of getting too much salt into your body when eating like this, or does the salt some how 'go away' by the time its ready to be eaten?

[GreenLearning]

Good deal, I was trying to find out how to ferment food to preserve it.

[blackrubberbag]

Soul kimchi.

[ParapaDrifter]

you mean boil the water and collect the steam to get rid of chlorine?

Does grey water work? rain water? snow? riverwater? dehumidifier?

[Kaoz606]

Holy shoot! Every comment on this video is over a paragraph long O_O

[vention4wh]

Marry Me

Yes I'm joking, but only 99%.

If I ever do marry, she'll be a lot like you.

As our society drops farther into poverty, men and women will be a lot better off if we can partner up again. The divorce industry has created a generation of men who are afraid to marry (I'm one of them). I like living single but the time is rapidly approaching when I'll have to reconsider this lifestyle.

[vention4wh]

2.

As we drop into a 3rd world economy work is going to become physically harder with longer hours and lower pay. At the end of a 12 hour shift a guy may have a 90 minute bike ride to get home (Unless he has enough money for bus fare). Add that up and he'll have a hard time maintaining his home, clothes, garden, and so on. A woman like you could maintain him at a higher level of health, giving him more vitality to deal with the job so he can keep the money coming in.

[vention4wh]

3.

Another important bonus is that she can also guard the place while he's at work, answering the door with pistol in hand, ect.

In time such an arrangement will look good to a lot of women, especially once things start to get bad. When that happens I think I'll start looking again. Finding a girlfriend and perspective wife who can learn to do what you're doing is going to be serious business soon. In the old good economy days, I wouldn't bother but times are changing.

I need to change too.

[HomesteadProvocateur]

It is so funny you talk about this because I used to be feminist, and against everything you discuss, the role a woman plays, but now I am realizing the traditional role of women is not one of subjection, but of autonomy and empowerment. I am embracing it, and I was never brought up with the idea, it is new to me which is something ironic, but I'm really enjoying this. And yes, security and having someone to provide are both very attractive things, considering the way things are going.

[vention4wh]

Yes it's weird to be reconsidering that marriage. I spent much of my life being totally turned off toward marriage (and women in general). I saw too many of my friends destroyed when their wives decided they wanted someone else more, or just grew tired of their husbands. I've seen the same look in so many eyes, sort of a stunned look of despair, after they had been kicked out of their homes, evicted from their families, and nailed with crippling child support payments.

[vention4wh]

It's a big leap for me to even consider marriage. Currently I'm a prime target for a gold digger. All she has to do get her foot in the door, get pregnant, then call the police and say I abused her. They'll come and get me, then the family court will give my home to her and nail me for about 1500 a month in support payments. Then I could find myself living like a slave in a rented room somewhere, sending half my income to someone who used me.

It'll take a lot of trust for me to marry anyone.

[vention4wh]

As incomes fall though, we won't have enough surplus cash for this to work anymore. If most men earn only just enough to survive and maintain one household, the lawyers won't have any reason to go after him. The family court system will collapse because men won't have enough money to be worth raping financially.

When that happens marriage should become a lot safer, even for men with good incomes. I hope that happens. It would be nice to let down my guard for a change.

[HomesteadProvocateur]

It seems that you harbor a lot of distrust, and I myself can't blame you. My own mom is very much like the women you reference, she has had her previous husbands all pay off her credit card debt, my Dad can't stand her because the child support issue and yes, I see this being a huge problem in our culture. This is why I don't want kids. I would love kids, but I don't want to take a chance, with the craziness we see, with parents seperating, no family unit, it is insanity.

[vention4wh]

Too true, but it might not always be this way. The depression is going to cause a lot of people to dump the commercialism and get real, like you have. When that happens I think marriage will become a very good deal for men and women. And once the country sorts itself out, maybe in 5 or 6 years, a family with children might not be such an impractical thing to have. I almost wish I were young enough to take that journey with you.

[ParapaDrifter]

hows that song go? "Mo Money, Mo Problems"

[carefulcarpenter]

"Into the Wild". Of all the crazy ideas in this world of fiat-crazed BIG BOX credit card shoppers and the ponzi-scheming privileged class agendas-- making sauerkraut from scratch is the craziest path to economic survival.

"Howdy neighbor, got any spare rotten cabbage for a man down on his luck?"

LOL!!

[HomesteadProvocateur]

What is crazy is that most people don't know how to make sauerkraut! I had to read books and watch videos to learn myself and I'm still learning as I go. People don't realize how vulnerable they are. And the things that seem crazy to us now, were a way of life not nearly 70 years ago or so! So who is crazy, buying food that can only stay good in a fridge, or making food that will stay good even if your power turns off? It is a dilemma.

[carefulcarpenter]

My grandparents, on my father's side, were good gardeners and canners. My grandfather was also a duck hunter. People would share and trade within the local community. I think they did can sauerkraut.

People need to develop cottage industry so that we don't go hungry in hard times. America is a land of abundance where out-flight from rural communities has made us vulnerable to bankers and scammers.

Sauerkraut and polish links with German course mustard is one of my favorites!

[carefulcarpenter]

Trade goods are a good means to community building. Will you share this sauerkraut with your neighbors?

[HomesteadProvocateur]

If they wanted some, yes I would. I have already shared some of my collards and zucchini's with the neighbors too. I don't think they are fans of vegetables though. :(

I only have two neighbors, I live on a frontage road of a highway.

[carefulcarpenter]

Our neighbor had a wonderful garden and we really enjoyed the time thy brought zucchini squash over. They were trying to be neighborly. I always think life is richest when neighbors put in effort. America's biggest problem is disparity.

World hunger is not a food shortage but a distribution and political problem. We live in an abundance but so many people hoard: money, material wealth, food....love.

[carefulcarpenter]

The world's problems are more a love problem than a food problem. The collapse of Western Civilization, metaphorically illustrated on 911, will free people to be more human and loving. Far too many robotic, literal, linear thinkers using fear as a control and motivation tool. Independence in thought and self-sufficiency will be far more important than hoarding--which creates more fear than security in the long run.

PRESERVATION: this is what lesson I see in your video.

[ParapaDrifter]

taxation is the basis for hoarding

[mucktractorboy]

i was asking for the prospect of having to make this in cave setting. thank you. does it stink?

[HomesteadProvocateur]

Let us just say, it is "aromatic" yes, in some cases it can be stinky, but if you are used to stinkyness, it shouldn't be a bother.

The whole cave scenario, could possibly work, one would need to have the container on hand, and a masher and all necessary tools, or if you just have salt and water, that may be adequate. I've never tried that method before. I've had some really rank ones that I ended up throwing away before. But that was when I began experimenting last year, I knew nothing!

[mucktractorboy]

watch out martha stewart here you come! how does temperature effect this process? if stored in cellar would it be too cool? till finished fermenting?if done in hot summer will that speed process up? muck.

[HomesteadProvocateur]

I'll show Martha how it's done up in this heazy! Temp does affect the fermentation process, it is faster in the summer and takes longer in the winter. Once you refrigerate it, the microbial process ends. Otherwise, it would just keep on going, and eventually, I believe it would go bad at some point, so it is good to stick it in the fridge or cellar after about a month. I'm going to stick mine in the garage, that is my other fridge in the winter time. In the summer, I'd keep it out 2 weeks max.

[carefulcarpenter]

Building a life of experiences vs owning the efforts of others: we all must find our path and our passions. WE want to BE in your kitchen!

The trade-off:

"A wealthy wo/man can afford to hire me to design and build the most magnificent of creations out of wood and stone, something of quality and integrity that enlightens their imagination; but I get to build it"

~~carefulcarpenter

[HomesteadProvocateur]

Thanks KillaCommie, but I will surprise you, I was born in the U.S. and I didn't learn these skills from my parents, but from books. My mom's cooking, well, I don't know how I feel about it, the real money is in my Grandma's cooking skills. I want to learn to make pierogi's! Yumm. You are right about one thing, it can be a lot of work, but the finished product is worth the effort!

[DoctorsWife56]

Thanks girlfriend. I'm downloading videos like this to help later when we all get back to basics. I love your style and earthy knowledge. You're my kid's age, but they are city kids (lived with dad and his big house & Mercedes lifestyle). I wish all young people had your desire to live well. Have a good New Year and keep the coming!

[HomesteadProvocateur]

Well, thanks for the compliment, I wish more people my age were into this too, so we would have something to do together,LoL. Everyone my age just wants to party and get wasted. I'd invite them over to come garden, and cook and stuff, but I don't think it would fly too high. :)

[kevlarthehorribleone]

That's excellent. You'll have to let us know how it turns out. :)

[HomesteadProvocateur]

Thanks, I will in a week or two! I think it will be yummy.