Living on the Earth
Alicia Bay-Laurel

Ground oven is a hole lined with rocks.  Build a fire in hole.  Remove fire and place dutch oven inside hole.  Cover with more rocks, then dirt.


 "the wooden wife from wyoming"
 fill a wooden box with wet alfalfa.  Pack it down tight.  Scoop out a hole and place your soup pot inside.  let it dry.  To use it, remove soup pot and bring to a boil some water, chunks of meat, salt, vegetables.  Place inside box and close lid.  It will continue to boil all day while you're out.


 campfire cake:  cut an unsliced loaf of bread into big cubes.  Dunk in condensed milk, roll in coconut, spear with a green stick and toast over open fire.


coffee cake:  mix one cup flour, one egg, one cup wheat germ or rolled oats, 1/2 teaspoon each: salt, baking powder, cinnamon, 1/2 cup each: honey and oil.   moisten with enough water to make a soft dough.  Form balls 1 inch in diameter, roll them in cinnamon, wheat germ, and brown sugar; place in an oiled pan, touching, and bake til dry*.


cooked meat can be preserved by placing in a clean covered container and covering it with hot grease.  The solid grease with protect it.  [MC thinks if you use a canning jar and put a lid and ring on it, it will seal itself as the grease cools.]


 
 chickens require almost no care at all.  They will nest in a cardboard box or in a bush.  They don't need fences.  They eat chicken scratch (corn, oats & barley), kitchen scraps, and the insects that come to eat the kitchen scraps.  You can add apple cider vinegar to their water.
 Keep layering straw over the chicken shit & feathers in their yard & house.  At the end of the season you will have some good compost.
 for egg production, feed them 16% egg laying mash.
 the eggs you buy in supermarkets come from hens in tiny cages eating food full of formones, antibiotics & larvacides Your eggs will come from happy fertile hens who dance freely in the sun.  like you.



 commercial baby foods are not good for baby.  They contain ingredients to please the mother; salt, corn syrup, white sugar, none of these benefit any human body as a steady diet.