Farming Advice and Folklore: Homemade Honey, Leftover Soap and Peat Pot Substitutes

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Skip McKibben making homemade honey.

MOTHER EARTH NEWS readers share their farming advice, fun tips and country folklore, including a recipe for homemade honey, how to keep using leftover soap and using peat pot substitutes for tomato seedlings.

MOTHER’s Country Farming Advice and Folklore

Homesteader’s Fireweed Honey

Recently, I went to visit my friend Skip McKibben on the small beautiful island of Rangell, the oldest established island in Alaska. One day I watched him gather some fireweed and clover on the island and proceed to make the simplest most delicious honey. I thought I’d pass along the recipe.

Homemade Honey Recipe
10 cups sugar

  • Published on Apr 1, 1996
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