Many universities have good farming extensions that tell you how to do it in a way to keep you from poisoning yourself.
I can like the Minnesota one and have used it to can for the last 5 or so years.

extension.umn.edu/preserving-a...

Check out if there’s a small cube event happening near you that you can attend.

luckypaper.co/events/

Fun story from the salt box last month. 2 players in the finals just before lunch. Bones really wants to let them finish, so we just let them keep going way past time. About 20-30min after the round ended the game finishes. It was game 2. And they traded games. They ended up sharing the alter

there's a surprising amount you can do with the turbo idea. Philly has a version that plays pretty differently. cubecobra.com/cube/list/ph...

not anthony, but do live in baltimore. Salvaged Manaworker and three tree mascot are already in and play pretty well, but are not amazing or anything. i suspect that costing mana up front makes it not really worth it. maybe the abzan one, but rebuying it is not great. though it does work with clamp

if you have at least 2 mana and 4 life, pod guardian into a Fallen Angel, sac Karmic Guide, revilark, then get back revilark with guide and flicker pod. then pod guardian into Syr Konrad. from there sac Karmic Guide, revilark back and forth to win.
there's a few other 5 mana sac outlets as well