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No idea of any specifications on Millbank bags but we use them as a pre-filter when "out and about" and the water source is not too clean. They remove a lot of debris from your collected water but the resulting clean/clearer water still needs filtering/purifying. The advantage we find usin...

What about flour? Is there a storage solution for food in paper bags. We freeze our flour for 4/5 days to kill anything lurking in it then vacuum pack/seal the packet before storing in sealed food buckets in our cellars. Stored this way it will "allegedly" last for 10-15 years. We have op...

Anyone new to prepping needs to forget preparing for the end of the world scenario and concentrate on everyday, immediate and future emergency situations that you can plan for and deal with. Stay calm and build your resources and skill set slowly, quietly and confidently. Also lose your trust in the...

We are well behind here having not even started our normal winter preparations. It is coming to the end of October and we are still harvesting from the garden/field and preserving everything. Our day is still out by seven and collapse by eleven! We ran out of jars so had to buy a few hundred more to...

Plant a strip of yarrow, dill, fennel, or mountain mint through the middle of your vegetable beds, not just around the outside. Then leave it alone and let the bugs go to work. We "Strip garden/grow" all our annual vegetables, between each strip and within them we grow various herbs and f...

Food preservation is in full flow here at present, the temperatures this year have been @ 5-7c cooler averaging @ 38/40c which along with the extra hail nets and shading we installed has resulted in a bumper harvest of our crops so far. At present in the dehydrators: Red/Black/White currants, Raspbe...

How hardy is it? Paulownia Tomentosa (one of several Paulownia species) can survive a temperature range of -25c to +40c. Ensure adequate/plentiful watering in the first year or root and top growth will be slowed. The aim (as with most things) is to ensure good root foundation/growth in the first ye...

Finally finished planted 40 of these. Experimenting with different methods: root cuttings, full root systems, I year old one metre tall clipped trees. Hopefully they will be utilized for the following: Supplementary feed for the animals via their massive leaves. Blooms for the bees to use. Timber fo...

Second week of attacking a wasp infestation under roofing tiles :roll: If spraying from the outside and under the tiles Ficam 80 will resolve the issue. If inside and dealing with the nest we lay down plastic and use washing up liquid and water sprayed from a powerful hand sprayer. Simple and effec...

A lot of today's packaged seeds are "Industrial Bred" also known as (F1) Hybrids. Most commercial seeds are these which are basically genetically engineered crosses designed for industrial farming. They thrive within the controlled commercial farm set up (using all the required chemicals) ...