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I pulled one of our roosters out of the freezer where he was resting in peace, along with a jar of home made broth, got some of our potatoes out of storage, added a few veggies, made some gravy with the broth, tucked everything under a pie crust and baked it. Voila, chicken pot pie. Good for two...

Agree about people in bygone days washing clothes and bodies less often. I worked for my grandparents on their farm for two summers. They were both born in 1900. They wore layers of clothes, even in the summer, and the undergarments were changed often, but not the outer clothes. Also, they...

Mooli and Marianne are talking sense. I breastfed my infants and I didn't see any need to supplement that with other food. However, I left my 3 month old son with my sister one day and when I came home, she was giving him drips of chocolate milk shake out of a straw, and he was gaping like a...

Maybe if you don't want to plunk down $150 or more for a decent grinder, buy a cheap one, pregrind the flour and grind it finer in the blender or processor

I have a liberal arts degree which led to a paraprofessional job in a library. Everything I learned in college, including a reading knowledge of 4 foreign languages, has been useful to me every day on the job. Excellent writing skills are another useful skill I learned in college. My son just...

If you are using soap instead of detergent for your laundry, you need to add vinegar to the rinse to take the soap out of the laundry or it will get dingy. Soap does a good job of binding with dirt, but it doesn't readily rinse out of clothes on its own. It needs an acid rinse to remove it...

This fall I am growing brussels sprouts, overwintering cabbages, multiplier onions and garlic.

Our place is near Harrisburg in the Willamette Valley. We'll be lucky to get red tomatoes this year! Welcome to the forum.

My son is in New York City--he and probably most New Yorkers are not taking this very seriously. It's driving me crazy. New Yorkers are not accustomed to hurricanes. Somehow he thinks that because Irene will probably downgrade to level 1, that it's somehow not a serious storm ... as if 85 mph...

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That's the interesting thing about this crisis. Tea partiers are mad as hell. Liberals are mad as hell. Centrists are mad as hell. Everybody is upset and the blame is going all over the place. "Entitlements" include unemployment insurance, which every working American pays for. Many chronically...

Oh, I like this thread! This is the third year of cultivating our small property. We don't live there yet--we rent the farmhouse to a friend. But we are slowly turning an old pasture into a large garden. When we retire, we'll move there. Then I'll be ready to have a couple of goats. In the...

Build It Better Yourself, Rodale Press, Inc. My edition is from 1977. Hundreds of projects and ideas for all skill levels. Includes the basics for every kind of project--gardening, food storage, sheds, fences, furniture, greenhouses, buildings for livestock and people. Well illustrated. Despite...

We had this problem--the laundry would come out of the wash smelling bad, washing with detergent didn't get rid of the smell, no amount of vinegar or bleach would work. I finally realized that the clothes were getting mildewy (or perhaps moldy, although no spots or stains appeared on the...