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Jan./Feb. 2008 Frontier Freedom Online Magazine
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| Life in the Alaskan Bush |
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Saga of an Alaskan Bush Mother
My husband traveled up the Alcan Highway in August of 1950. I did not experience living in the interior regions of the Territory of Alaska until I came up the highway in 1955. The 160-acre parcels would be deeded to the homesteaders after they cleared and tilled a certain number of acres, built a house that was considered to be habitable year-round (ours barely was) and lived there a specified number of years. In the fall of 1959, my husband filed on some land -- and told me about it after the men had staked out the boundaries of their chosen acreage and filed the necessary papers. He got title to the land after three years because we lived there year-round.
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| Growing Up In The Great Depression |
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Life In the 1930's - Part 4
In the spring of 1937 we had to move. Dad and Mom found a place at the north end of the island. This was a very old house on a couple of acres. Mom was thrilled about having a chicken coop. The walls in the house were just bare studs showing, with nails on the studs for hanging clothes. The large kitchen had an old woodburning cookstove and a big table with a light bulb hanging down from the ceiling. There were two small bedrooms. I have to laugh about the chamber pots beside the beds. For some reason, only God knows, Mom always took the pots out into the field and dumped them in the same spot. The grass there was at least twelve feet high!
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| Gardening |
 | Plan Your Garden Now
I just wrote a long gardening letter to my daughter, and it occurred to me that it might be useful information for many gardeners this time of year with the seed catalogs coming out. My daughter is a teacher and is in charge of a small garden for the school. She asked me for advice on what to grow, where to buy seeds, how to plant and so on. This is rather amusing to me because she always hated helping in the garden, and didn’t learn as much as she should have while growing up. Here are lots of tips that will help you plan, and later work in your garden. There’s also a zone chart and a sample garden plan.
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 | Wide Row Beans
Some folks might find it odd that I'm writing a gardening article for the January edition of Frontier Freedom. But if most fellow homesteaders are like me, gardening thoughts consume quite a bit of our fireside time. Seed catalogs have begun to appear in our mailboxes, and although the snow is gizzard deep and the wind whines and cries outside, the hope of springtime and thoughts of fresh tilled soil are in our hearts and minds. We begin to plan what we’ll grow next year, what new varieties we'll try and what new methods we might employ. Today I thought I’d share a method of growing green beans that has worked well for us here on the ...
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| The Homestead Kitchen |
 | You Can Make Jerky!
Yes you can make jerky. Most of us enjoy a nice, flavorful piece of beef jerky, but even a small amount is expensive. And if you are a label reader, which I am not, you may be concerned about some of the ingredients used in the commercial jerky that you buy in the store. If you raise your own goats or beef, or get a deer once in awhile, you have the first ingredient for some mouthwatering jerky, which is good quality meat. The following method and recipe is a fast, practical procedure and fairly natural too, without getting too organically finicky about ingredients.
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| The Trapline |
 | Increase Trapline Profits
Many trappers don’t realize it, but there’s a market besides the furrier market for selling that hard earned catch. Any animal caught on the trap line can have value to a taxidermist - this especially true for animals that are uniquely marked or highly unusual in some way. For example, those brightly colored pine marten, which you may get nearly nothing for at the fur auction, can bring top dollar from a taxidermist. Nationwide, the top sellers in the taxidermy market are heavily spotted bobcats, or cats of tremendous size, heavily furred animals in near perfect condition, and off colored or uniquely marked animals.
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 | Fleshing Fur Bearers
In the last issue, I talked about skinning fur bearers. You can sell them “green” to your local fur buyer, but if you really want to increase your profits, then you’ll want to flesh and dry them. This way, they’ll be ready for you to ship off to the fur auction house, or sell to a taxidermist.
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| Homestead Animals |
 | Goat Housing
In previous issues, we talked about why goats are good to have, what breeds to get, how to feed them, and why you'd even have them in the first place. Now we are going to talk about housing for goats. It’s not difficult to house your goats to keep them healthy, but there are a few important considerations for space requirements and storage of their feed.
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 | Facilities for Goats
Once you’ve decided on the breed of goat you’d like to have, and you know how your going to feed and house them, you need to do get facilities ready for your goats. In this article, I'll give you lots of helpful tips on fencing, pens, gates, flooring, bedding, building a manger and a milking stand, and more.
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| Alternative Energy |
 | Non-Electric Lighting - Part 2
Kathleen Sanderson continues her discussion of non-electric lighting. This article includes information on candles, lanterns, making your own wicks and more. She concludes with her thoughts on the future of lighting, and how our lives may change as fuel prices soar.
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