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We have all these wild cherry bushes, way more than we can eat raw. They are a bit tart, but also a bit sweet, and are chokecherry size with big pits. I want to use them, but don't know what gadget will work best. I was thinking of cooking them, then putting them through a food mill (the OXO...

That makes sense. It wasn't a regular occurance, it was just that we ened up with them once, and wondered if they'd eat it. I also wonder if feeding pigs an excessive diet of pork would make them cannibalistic? One of my great great great uncles a LONG time ago had part of a leg taken by a huge...

Yeah, I know it sounds weird. They eat meat. I have no idea where we got them, maybe the butcher cause they were old or something? But there were a few whole (big) hog legs. We had like 15 pigs and they were almost eating each other to get to them. They weren't rotten or moldy or bad smelling or...

I hate throwing them away, they take a lot of trash space. We don't have recycling close enough to make that worthwhile. Anybody have any creative uses for them?

We used to raise up to 20 pigs at a time. I'd like to get a few next spring. We'd get anything left over from the local dairygold distributor. Some days we'd get 100 gallons of ice cream and many gallons of milk, cream, etc. They normally don't like ice cream till it's fermented. Put it all in...

Yes, a cotton ball soaked in vasoline will burn a long time. Long enough to get wet kindling burning. We use it when it's a cold day snowmobiling and we stop to warm up. Also, we fish a lot. Those are great for storing fishing lures, and separating them and even putting in a backback for...