Safely Gathered In Weekly Roundup: Bottled Butter, Food Storage Shelving

The Simple Dollar put out a post this week about today's economic situation. The Only Thing We Have To Fear Is Fear Itself has nothing to do with food storage but I think it's important to us anyway. When we follow the commandments of God, there is no room for fear in our lives. As we keep plugging along gathering food storage as we can, we build faith knowing that the Lord will bless us and our families for our efforts. With our lives centered in God and the importance of eternal families we have no cause to fear.

Scared of living without butter? Fear no more! Green Apple Orchard has a tutorial on how to bottle butter that lasts for 3-5 years! Go check it out. Note that you can get butter for less when you buy it in the pound instead of in individually wrapped cubes. That would work just fine for this.

We have been unsuccessful in posting the instructions for building your own ramp-style shelving. But we have it in a PDF format and if you are interested, please email us at safelygatheredin @ gmail.com (remove spaces) and we'll email it to you. Or you can simply click on the photo and print it out from a new window. However, let me just warn you: it's not a step-by-step guide at all - in fact, it's just a one-page picture with all the dimensions and materials you need to have. In the future, we would LOVE to post a "How to" and teach you all step-by-step how to build one of these (with tons of pictures!), but I don't see it happening soon. If one of you would like to take on that project, let us know!