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Home→Published 2012 → July

Monthly Archives: July 2012

Dealing with Drought — Growing Food When Texas Weather Moves North

Posted on July 7, 2012 by JTHats
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If you decide to be self-sufficient and grow your own food, you’ll face yearly challenges unique to your location and adapt to them fairly quickly. Fine-tuning a garden to local conditions only takes a few years of experience, and then … Continue reading →

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In Search of . . . . Yellowjacket Stew — or Just Peaceful Coexistence

Posted on July 1, 2012 by JTHats
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After parching the paper combs over a fire you can pick out the grubs and the pupae and make a good soup. Use the yield of the nest like any ground meat, except you don’t need to grind it.

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