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Buy vs. Make
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Started this discussion. Last reply by FarmerAmber May 12.
Frugal garden ideas?
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How do you start your seeds?
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We live near Circleville, and we've got a Jersey cow. I can tell you about our experience. I think if you add me as a friend on here we can send emails directly and set something up.
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Yes, they do have to be bred. The gestation period is about 5 1/2 months. We would breed ours once a year, and milk them for 9 or 10 months, drying them off a couple months before the kids were due. We usually tried to have the kids born in early ...
How's everybody's garden holding up? Anything to donate so far?
We're having a bad year so far. We've harvested just a handful of berries. We've got three apples total on our four trees, and no peaches.
The tomatoes and peppers have been unhappy...
Small Scale Grain Raising cites a December 1975 article from Organic Gardening and Farming magazine (and quotes extensively from it). I don't know if the technique described would apply to your case though. It has another section on wild rice (whi...
We preserve most of our vegetables (shooting for all this year) by canning, freezing, dehydrating, etc. I make all our jellies and pickles. Both are way easy to do. I was a little intimidated by the pressure canner (for veggies) before I started u...
My husband, son and I are building our own house, a red cedar log home approximately 1500 sq ft... while we live in our "practice cabin" which is a timber frame 450 sq ft...we have been working on the big house 5 1/2 years on weekends. It was much...
One of my frugal practices involves having gardening friends. For example, a few weeks back I gave a neighbor some foamflower plants that came up in my back lawn, seeded from plants inside a planted bed, that I had dug up for sharing, and today sh...
We've been working on this for a while, so I'm gonna say we make a high proportion of what we use. I make almost all our bread. I make cheese. DH has made my cheese forms and cheese press. We garden and can a lot of the produce. We have dairy goat...
Comment Wall (3 comments)
- At 7:56pm on January 12, 2009,
Susan said… - Thanks -- I love the idea of being able to connect with people who share my loves and concerns! I get tired of being the 'odd' one on my block/at my job. I actually got to give gardening advice to one of my neighbors today, and whoda thunk it??? Not me, that's for sure; the big reason for my success is all you guys are doing it too, it gives me courage and hope.
- At 1:06pm on January 9, 2009,
Dave said… - Thanks, Edson. That accomplishes my goal. Have a great day!
- At 9:36pm on January 8, 2009,
Dave said…
- Hi Edson,
Nice to meet you and thanks if you can get that e-mail addy.
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- Trying to make the leap from typical suburbanite to mini-farmer in one fell swoop.
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