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Salt – Fact or Fiction

by Paul Eident | Mar 16, 2015 | Emergency Preparations, Family preparedness, Health Tips, Salt

Salt is one of the most precious natural compounds known to man. The word salt comes from the Latin word for salary – when people were actually paid in salt.1 Table salt is composed of 97.5% sodium chloride. It is dried at more than 1,200º F. which separates out...

General Purpose Weed Killer

by Paul Eident | Feb 19, 2014 | Gardening, Preparedness, Weed Killer

There are lots of references for natural weed killers. One inexpensive herbicide is a combination of vinegar and dish soap. Apply this treatment on a sunny day. The acetic acid in vinegar will burn the weed leaves on contact and lower the pH of the soil, making...