Early American Life Magazine

[Country Singer]

Does anyone have a subscription or a review on Early American Life?  I got a tipoff about it and I may subscribe.  It appears that they have some potentially very useful information; looking at the current issue's contents, there are some articles on building cold frames and hot beds for gardening as well as one on historic leather-working techniques.

[tlwagg]

I haven't read that one, but if you haven't seen Backwoodsman you should give it a look. This month it has:
Master the Bow Drill With Creek Stewart
The Turkey Bone Powder Measure
Mountain Man Fishing
The Duck Hunter 3000
A Simple Method Of Making Grape Wine

[Starlady]

I'm going to get it just for the wine article.   Now that I've soap and salves nailed down, this will be the year of wine!

[tlwagg]

We've made beer but haven't tried wine yet. Hubbies granddad use to make wine, I liked it but I was the only one, it was a sweet wine. The rest of the family are real wine connoisseur they like the fancy stuff.

[8greenbeans]

Another down for wine this year! I'm with you tlwagg - needs to be sweet. I don't care how good it is *supposed* to be and how *perfect* the wine is - if it is dry and no sweet then it isn't good.

I think I'll pick up both issues next week. They both sound interesting.

[Fixit]

OK . You people wanting to make wine go plant a bed of lemon balm . You will want at lest a 3' x 3' bed and a 3'x6' would be better . Will post our recipe  in a  new thread probably tomorrow.
 I say probably cause I going on a day trip that I do every month. Last month I lost 5 days. Got hit with Viral Encephalitis. I can remember noon Saturday the next thing I know it was Wednesday night.

[SS-Preppers]

Don't forget about Dandelion Wine.....start now and you'll have some to drink by mid to late summer.......

[tlwagg]

Thanks 8GB! Hubbies family is so into wine his dad can tell where they grew the grapes most of the time. Me I like sweet even though it is suppose to be a dessert wine.