Today I spent time on the computer learning more about making butter and yogurt, and also learned how to make cultured buttermilk, sour cream, and cream cheese from raw milk. This week I've spent time learning how to bottle different kinds of foods like meats, beans, etc. I've also been working on improving my knitting skills and have been looking into learning to spin my own wool.
There are several reasons why I spend time learning about these kinds of things: Developing a more self-sustaining lifestyle, being more frugal, being more industrious, and developing skills (and passing them onto my children) that are likely to come in handy as economic times become tougher and tougher. I've come to enjoy learning these things and actually doing them. As a matter of fact, today I made butter and started a milk clabber for buttermilk.
It just struck me funny today how these are all considered "old-fashioned" or pioneering skills, and yet here I am depending on the very modern internet to learn them. Quite the dichotomy, isn't it?
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