Recent content by whysprs

Wow.. doesnt supprise me now days, lots of scams going around. I would have been completely peeved but would have been excited to get something like that.

We always just hit cold water, rather being a creek or the hose to stop the burn from nettle. As for plantain, its decent as a green in salads. We have mixed dandelions and plantains as a salad with a oil and vinegar dressing many times in the past. Dandelion jelly was pretty good too.

Yes the majority we harvest and prepare ourselves, when we cant find them we have ordered them via mountain rose herbs. Majority of thiers is wild harvested.currently we have mullien and yarrow that i planted last year from wild seed. I havnt done salves as of yet, I usually just go ahead and...

Thats kinda what we did, i picked up a bunch of flower pots from krogers after valentines day as well as we have some big totes, with these we poked holes about 1-2 in from the bottom so that they couldn't be flooded out from torrential rains or by overwatering.. the first year nothing would...

We have been container gardening because the solid here is really bad, cant grow anything but weeds mostly in it, everything this year in miniature, guessing the pots and totes wasnt big enough. Lots of buildings that ive been tearing down. Lots of gravel which is good for the pineapple plant...

Does it have to be a recent photo?

Ive got a long list of sorts . Mullien for lungs, dandelion and chickory there's quite a few uses, pineapple plant its similar to chamomile and is prolific here, cattail, elderberry, passion fruit clover both red and white, willow, sumac, mulberry, henbit, henbane, slippery elm, persimmons...

1. What state/province/country are you in and what is your climate like? Southern illinois, as for climate, we are known to have all 4 seasons in a week. 2. Who or what inspired you to become more self sufficient? I have never liked to depend on anyone and pretty much the reason, that and my...

Have been busy of sorts and put everything on a side track. Started a new business so been trying to get that going along with my handyman service. As an update that I hadnt talked about was in 2019, we lost homestead we was trying so hard to keep afloat. I had gotten hurt at work in 2017 and...

Wow, had lost thia site over the years, only just found it again when i googled myseld

Hiya, im whysprs (whispers) from southern Illinois.. no its not Chicago-land, that's way way way north of me. Anyways, we are buying a 5 acre lot, we call it our farmstead. so far we have chickens, rabbits and turkeys but we also have all the neighborhood animals that like to take up residence...