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This is an interesting topic. I was a bed wetter until age 11, and heavy sleeper with many sleep disruptions (sleep walking, talking, night terrors). My mom said when we kids were little, she would put us to bed and a couple of hours later she'd hear us all bumping around in the dark, sleep...

I've seen flocks of birds do this ... is it only starlings? It's amazing. The last time I saw it I was driving on a busy highway. People pulled over and stopped to watch it. In the film, I thought the fleeting natural phenomenon might be the way the color drained out of the clouds at sunset...

I hit up Craig's List and found a source of free horse manure!! In fact I suspect it is the $4-per-load people. When I was at their place last summer, they had -mountains- of the stuff, and I have a feeling they were getting desperate. I think I can use several truck loads for my scruffy...

We have your problem--about 2 acres of lawn, brush and weedy pasture, one push lawn mower, one weed whacker with attachments (12" cultivator). For the last three years we've rented a walk behind brush hog to clear blackberry bushes and heavy brush. We rent a heavy duty walk behind tiller to...

I think we gain by having the perspective of both sexes, whether it is someone like my male coworker who sews clothes for his children, or one of my female coworkers who is a beekeeper (she's my age, 50 plus, and if she has a leaky roof, she climbs up there and fixes it). I -was- raised to be a...

The farm house is fine. The yard had some standing water. However, many low fields in the area did flood, and I could see that the water crested over one lane of the highway on my way in to town. The waters have receded, but we are now getting the rain we should have had in Nov.-Dec. And it's...

There has been major flooding in a large part of the Willamette Valley this week. I have friends in the Mohawk Valley, some near Jasper, and some in Springfield who all have floodwaters lapping at their doorsteps. I am headed to our farm near Harrisburg to make sure everything in the house is...

Please add me: Harrisburg, Oregon, between Eugene and Corvallis, just a stone's throw from Junction City.

When I was a teeny little girl, when someone asked me what I wanted to be I'd say "a farmer!". My mother, a farmer's daughter, stomped on that idea. She saw it as a dismal fate, too much work and isolation. She discouraged me. In my teens I worked during the summers for my grandparents on their...

Get the "Ball Blue Book" for canning if you don't already have it. Among other things, it has a "garden planning guide", telling how many plants you need to plant in order to can enough food for a family of 6. You can do the math and scale that to your family size. For instance: Tomatoes--need...

I started gardening in earnest three years ago. Every year I try to become self sufficient in a new vegetable: I try to learn how to grow it and then grow enough to store or preserve until the next growing season. The first year, I grew a huge batch of onions. The next year, I grew tons of...

Call the companies you owe money to and renegotiate what you owe and the terms of payment. They can't get the original sum from you if you are unemployed, so they may settle for a lesser amount that you can afford to pay off. I haven't done this, but I have heard of others doing it successfully...

Moolie, thanks for the info about the dent corn. I want to grow some this year, and I was hoping I wouldn't need a new mill just for corn. Do you think the mill will grind flint corn?

I bought a Family Grain Mill from Pleasant Hill Grain. I got the hand cranked model for $139. It works great. This mill also has an option for an electric motor, and different attachments for roller milling and other tasks. It will not mill corn though. Pleasant Hill Grain was good to deal...

I'm just growing them the old fashioned way, in the ground. I tried potatoes in a garbage can one, but they were poorly drained and only a few tiny potatoes were produced. This year, I am preparing a bed for potatoes: I put down cardboard to smother weeds, and I piled up leaves and rotted straw...

What about venting it outside, into a greenhouse? I've thought about doing this, but I don't have a greenhouse or cold frame just now. Also I wouldn't want to trap moisture right next to the house where it might destroy the siding, so I'd have to improvise an extended vent. An occasional puff of...

I'm trying to visualize a metric buttload :ep

I'm trying to wean the family off gifts too, but we still have a teenager at home and she finds it harsh to face Christmas without presents. So we had a few gifts for everyone. Mostly we celebrated by renting a beach house and having the coast all to ourselves. We were all together, and that was...

Yes, the 1973 article from Organic Gardening seems to be the granddaddy to the ehow article. Since 1973, has anyone had success with this method? A while ago, I saw some postings about a guy who was dead set on barrel fish--maybe on this forum, but from a few years ago--he got everything set up...

Wow, thanks for the great instructions for making beef stock! I'm going to go to the butcher and see if I can score some bones.