March Newsletter

March Cannery Date: March 28, 5 PM

Please, arrive 10 minutes early. 

“For the righteous the gospel provides a warning before a calamity, a program for the crises, a refuge for each disaster. The Lord has warned us of famines, but the righteous will have listened to prophets and stored at least a year's supply of survival food…”  Ezra Taft Benson

Spiritual Goal: Daily personal devotions "The scriptures were one of the ways God spoke to me—even when I was a child—about my needs, my situation, and my life. They still are. Since our needs change over a lifetime, God has different things to tell us at different times...The only way you can be sure that a busy schedule doesn’t crowd out scripture study is to establish a regular time to study the scriptures... In time, if you truly begin to feast upon the scriptures, you will find that they become a part of you." Henry B. Eyring

Physical Goal: Add weight training This is easy to do with a couple light weight dumbells and easily found internet instructions. Walking with or without a weighted vest is also a weight baring exercise. We need weight baring exercises to strengthen our bones and increase muscle strength not to build bulky man-muscles. "“There is a close relationship between physical health and spiritual development. When one’s physical health is impaired by disobedience to God’s eternal laws, spiritual development will also suffer...We ought now to concentrate on developing and improving our present physical house, which tabernacles a spirit child of God, and prepare it for eternal glory.” Delbert L. Stapley

Financial Goal: After building up some savings, begin to pay off debt. When your smallest debt is paid, apply that amount of money to the next smallest debt. Do this until no more debt remains including your mortgage. “Once in debt, interest is your companion every minute of the day and night; you cannot shun it or slip away from it; you cannot dismiss it; it yields neither to entreaties, demands, or orders; and whenever you get in its way or cross its course or fail to meet its demands, it crushes you” J. Reuben Clark, Apr. 1938, 103.

Provident Living Goal: Learn to sew a simple apron, plant a windowsill garden, plan your summer garden on paper, and read a classic book pertaining to finances, like The Richest Man in Babylon. On a sunny day, clean up your garden spot. "Man cannot be an agent unto himself if he is not self-reliant. Herein we see that independence and self-reliance are critical keys to our spiritual growth. Whenever we get into a situation which threatens our self-reliance, we will find our freedom threatened as well. If we increase our dependence, we will find an immediate decrease in our freedom to act." Marion G. Romney

Storage Goal: 50 cans soup, stew or chili per person, Paper products, storage bags, etc., At least 5 gallons water per person “For the righteous the gospel provides a warning before a calamity, a program for the crises, a refuge for each disaster. The Lord has warned us of famines, but the righteous will have listened to prophets and stored at least a year's supply of survival food…”  Ezra Taft Benson

Emergency Kit Goal: 1 pound dried fruit with nuts per person, 1 box crackers per person, 1 can bean or cheese dip per person, butane, Half full is the new EMPTY-ALL vehicles should be filled to at least half full.

Pantry Box Goal: 2 cans pineapple,  2 cans mandarin oranges, 2 cans peaches, 2 cans pears, 2 cans fruit cocktail, 4 cans stir fry veggies, 2 cans peas, 2 cans green beans, 2 jars pimentos

Have you noticed how much lettuce costs in the store in our little town. Far from the sunny locals, where it was grown, our lettuce greens are often well over a week old. Tired, limp greens are not the makings for an inviting dish. Why not grow your own?

What? No green house? Don't despair, you do have a green house if you heat your home and have a window or two. So many things can be grown in a narrow container. Imagine baby bok choi, dinosaur kale, spinach, lettuce, chives, parsley, sage, rosemary, thyme, and basil growing in your cozy kitchen. If you get even more brave, you might try container varieties of cherry tomato, beet, radish, pepper, and eggplant.  


Many containers were designed to sit right on a windowsill for this very purpose. Some of these are self watering, too. Filled with potting soil, azomite, and powdered alfalfa, watered with liquid kelp, you'll have a wonderful, local, organic, baby vegetables in a few weeks without ever venturing out into the wind and ice. Plus, growing things is a wonderful stress reduction technique. It'll keep you well fed and happy until you can get outdoors.