Recent content by Suzannah

CROCKPOT...if you don't have one you can find one at the nearest secondhand store for just a few dollars. Throw in ground meat (turkey, chicken, pork or beef) with a couple of cans of beans and some seasoning and you've got lots of chili. A crockpot is a handy way to make pulled pork as well...

I have an occasional (that's every couple of years) surge of "sugar ants" around the windows, especially in the kitchen. I spray them with Windex with ammonia (perhaps just ammonia would work) - then wipe it up. It kills them immediately and apparently once you've blasted the little groups...

What a wonderful opportunity for you and your family. Plan to enjoy it thoroughly. I recommend any and all of the "guide" books published by Storey Publishing - they have guides to chickens, pigs, horses, cows, etc, etc. And then John Seymour's "The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live it"...

This year I used a panel of windows from old garage doors I had replaced to make a cold frame on my raised bed. These salad greens and radishes are still doing well - even after being picked over three times.

Anyone here have a Diamant Grain Mill? Am considering getting one some day and want to know what experience you've had with one. Like it? Worth it? Thanks in advance.

Hi - first post on here. Came over from Backyard Chickens site. I live in Western NC now - until closer to retirement in a few years. Have 5 acres in upstate SC I am setting up as a small homestead - bit by bit. Have a 40 x 60 foot 5 stall barn with large hayloft in place. It includes two...