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    Calliopia _ Newbie Adventures in Self Sufficiency

    I live in the eastern panhandle of WV. We have a 5 br rancher on 1/2 an acre that is very carefully divided between us and another family that was having some issues so they came to live with us. We have 3 goats (hopefully more in 5 months) 15 chickens 4 dogs and 2 cats. We have 6 apple/pear...
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    Calliopia _ Newbie Adventures in Self Sufficiency

    So I've been on a kick for about eh.. 4 years now with wanting to provide more of our own necessities. I've always been an avid, my husband would say rabid, recycler, reuser and collector of random objects. I love cooking projects, gardening, farming and such. My first experiments of this...
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    Uses for dehydrator...need ideas

    Do... Not... Dehydrate... Cabbage... In.. The.. House.... Ask me how I know! If yours is a big box dehydrator you can raise bred in it, make yogurt, and use it like a tandori oven. If it is a stacking shelf one then you can also do jerky, herbs, make paper. Lots of stuff.
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    A hawk got my duck. How do I process it?

    If they are processed like chickens, you take off the feathers first and then when they are nude you gut them. There are some great videos on Youtube about how to process a chicken. I can't imagine it is any different for a duck.
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