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I haven’t had a garden in a couple of years, but every year on the full moon in August, my chef son and I pick prickly pears. We make jelly, prickly pear lemonade, prickly pear confit, prickly pear jello, and a few other goodies. We did the confit in a sous vide this year, and it turned out amazing (we added lemons). My little garden had 40 herbs in it as well as many vegetables. I used rabbit manure, but I also used fermented plant juice and I captured indigenous microorganisms. I double dug my beds and used the biodynamic French-intensive method so as soon as a hole in the garden was vacated, it had something else planted there immediately. Can’t wait to own land again.

LOL, not my sister, but ME. I went to the stumps too, having the same MOS as you. I love the USMC. Two of my sons followed in their mama’s footsteps. One was Navy and the other a weatherman in the USAF. Changing the subject, but it is so nice to see so many men who still have these meat preserving skills and who can provide. It is so much fun just reading the posts. I love you guys, and I’m learning so much!

RafterW I LOVE THAT BOOK

johnsbrewhouse THANK YOU SO MUCH.

GWG8541 Agreed. When I was contracting in Iraq for OIF it was not so much fun

Grimpuppy I’m actually a very old “sister.” Company A in boot camp at Parris Island was supposed to be the first woman’s company to snap in, but the weapons didn’t arrive. That is how old I am. LOL. I would tell you what I did, but I don’t know if it has been declassified. Probably, because that technology is obsolete. LOL

WOW. The best dining facility I ever ate at while in the CORPS was a GP medium. You are older than I am. We called it 29 Stumps back then. MCCES is where I was trained. Do you remember them training with heavy artillery on that base? My friends in school (all men, I was the only woman) went swimming in the “pools” which were cesspools, and got some kind of infection. LOL I told them they were not for swimming in! The reason I enlisted is because men, like you, were being treated so horribly. I had the opinion that this country belonged to all of us, so I served too, but of course, never had boots on the ground. Women were not permitted.