Cooking & Baking 
HOMEMADE SOLAR OVEN(11)
It’s summer and that means dusting off the solar ovens. No need to heat up the house hotter than it is for cooking simple foods.
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HOMESTEAD HELPER: POWDERED MILK
I remember my grandmother mixing powdered milk into regular whole milk as a way of making the milk go further. She used the instant dry milk and, back then, that did help to make the price of milk more economical.
(21) TEA TIME!
With the cost of gas and food going up, it’s becoming more economical to throw your own parties at home.
(12) APPLES & APRICOTS
It’s been a tootie fruity week here on the urban homestead. We have fruits coming out of ears and what a blessing that is.
The homestead kitchen is hopping- trays of desserts, jars of jams and bowls of ice cream are churning out from the nourishing center of our little universe.
SUN OVEN COOK OFF!
Yesterday, we spent a wonderful afternoon across the street from the urban homestead with some very energetic 3rd graders who, for their science & social studies project, had to build a pizza box solar ovens. Not only did they do a great job of making the pizza box ovens, tbut hey also decorated the ovens [...]
(6) FOOD NETWORK “PRIVATE CHEFS” Airs This Friday!
Come and listen to my story ’bout a man named Jed a simple pioneer, who kept his family fed And then one day he was growin’ some food When up from the ground come a mountin’ of doo…soil, that is. Black gold. Earthy. Well, the next thing you know, ol’ J’s a ‘farmer extraordinaire His [...]
(27) ANOTHER SHINY SOLAR OVEN
FACT: every day the sun shines, an equivalent of 4.25 TRILLION barrels of oil falls on the US alone in the form of solar energy I have a confession, I been addicted to solar ovens ever since we built our first cardboard, aluminum oven back in the days — 1990 to be exact. Yep, we [...]
(8) WHAT’S NEW FOR THE NEW YEAR? PROJECT #1
GROW FOR TEN THOUSAND Our readers know that that we’ve been hinting for months about a great new project in the works. As we start the new year, the moment has come to reveal our plan, along with a new logo exemplifying the revolutionary spirit of PTF’s Homegrown Revolution™: To harvest 10,000 pounds in 2008 [...]
(20) SHINE ON
Answers From the Urban Homestead – Solar Ovens Q. I would like to start using a solar oven, but the temps are dropping here in PA. Is there a minimum temperature at which the solar oven will work?Thanks for answering my question. And thanks for your work!Kym Helwig A. Thank you for your question and [...]
(Comments Off) COOKING WITH THE SUN
Solar ovens Peddler’s Wagon Product Review Practical products for the urban homesteader Sun Ovens Back in the early 1990′s I remember building our first sun oven using cardboard boxes, aluminum foil and piece of glass. Although homemade ovens are a great diy project (a few years back we built a sturdier sun oven using [...]
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