Conscious meal planning can be one of the most successful ways to improve your diet and reduce monthly spending. For over a year now, we have been starting off every month with a single large, carefully planned grocery shopping trip. On this trip, we get all our protein, grains, shelf […]
Do you have a Walnut or Pecan tree? Does most of what you plant under and near it end up dying? This is because this family of trees produce an allelopathic chemical called Juglone. Juglone is an organic compound that stunts the growth of many plants by inhibiting enzymes that […]
Need trees but don’t want to spend a fortune? Here are resources for affordable trees. Arbor Day Foundation You will get 10 free trees when you join the Arbor Day Foundation. Members get about a 36% discount on trees. We joined and a few friends joined giving us what […]
Why spend $50-90 on purchasing a wort chiller when you can build one for about $25. Benefits to using the chiller is that you reduce the chilling time from hours to minutes. Materials needed: Copper tubing 3/8 Outside Diameter (OD) Vinyl tubing 3/8 Inside Diameter (ID) Tube clamp Compression fitting […]
After brewing beer you have over 10lbs of grain plus the absorbed water, now what to do with it. A majority of the sugars and some proteins have been pulled out of the grain during the mashing process, so it will have a higher fiber to sugar ratio. Uses: Compost […]
