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Yes, I had a copy but that was a divorce and many miles ago. Am going to buy another copy as soon as I can. Was actually looking for people here raising thier own grains and input about thier results. I know the methods and processes but haven`t put them into action yet but will.

I would like to say on the issue of environmental impact that this country as well as a lot of others intire economies is based on corporate consumerist waste which translates directly to environmental impact. By this I mean that most all of the mass produced goods are designed to end up in land...

120 acres, how I envy that. We have 5 acres but also have access to several more acres to use for crops a few miles away. Still it would be nice to be on that much land without having to travel, as there are a lot of things I would like to do that our acreage will not support.

Sorry, missed the question in your post. No not vegan yet but heading that way.

Thanks for the heads up on the oils wifezillah. My problem with butter is that unless you are buying organic it still contains RBGH as well as all the other who knows what of commercial dairy products. I am all for true organics but a lot of that stuff is to expensive for our situation. I am...

Wifezillah in your post you said many seed oils are inflamatory. Do you mean they are flammable? As in ignite?

The idea is to press only what you need as you need it. We will raise black oilseed sunflower which stores well in the hull. Run the whole seed hull and all through a food processor heat to about 170 degrees and press. Pressing is done with a homemade press using a 3 to 4 ton hydraulic jack. We...

Anyone pressing thier own cooking oil?

As I am very new to this forum and forums in general I hope I don`t drive everyone crazy with questions. Where we live we are somewhat isolated so it is a great joy to find others here that are doing some of the same things we are doing.

Anyone raising thier own tobacco?

FarmerDenise I would like to know what variety of millet you are raising, what size area and what you figure your yield is in pounds. Just approxinates would be great. I`ve done a lot of research on millet as well as some other grains. The best...

Anyone raising thier own grains? I`m considering growing wheat and millet this next season and am looking for input.

Farmerchick I just noticed that you are in North Carolina. I lived in Love valley for a while a few years back. I`m up in the north country now, [mid Michigan] lot different raising crops here verses there. I loved the long growing season down there. We had 93 frost free days this last season...

Also thanks for the welcome farmerchick.

The only domestic critters we have freemotion are a cat and small dog unless you want to count the wildlife which is abundent. Deer, quail, partridge, ducks and so on. We are semi vegetarian as we do eat a very occasional piece of meat, but mostly what we raise as crops.

Not new to self sufficientcy but new to this forum.I checked out a lot of the posts and like what I read. I and my girlfriend live on 5 acres and grow a lot of what we eat, we also do a lot of canning and dehydrating and are working toward as close to complete sufficientcy as possible. Always...