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I have had Build It Better Yourself for many years. It's one of my favorite reference books for homesteading construction projects. Some of the techniques are outdated but they're all good. The problem with me is that every time I pick up the book I get "talked into" another interesting...

That's usually how it works here in our neck of the woods, too. Sometimes you'll get a call from someone within several hours. And sometimes you will never get a call. I have been told that's a way of filtering out the "desirable" from the undesirable" buyers.

I have always associated the word feral with domestic animals that have reverted back to non-domestic wild beasts. Like in the case of a young and cute pink piggy. You can put them out into the woods and next year they will have grown tusk-like teeth and have become savage beasts. Similarly a...

Ammanah go ov-air by the big tree and kill me some deers. I seen 'em ov-air t'other day. Ems biguns, too. Actually I kind of like the regional slang. It definitely gives color to our language.

Forgive me if this appears to be a hi-jack of your thread, but my question may fit right in . . . A few weeks ago I tried to make some bone broth. I boiled 8 lb. of beef bones from our local butcher shop. I boiled them for about 16 hours on our rocket stove outdoors. The bones never did get...

Hi shella. We can just about everything that you mentioned in your original post plus we can lots of prepared meals, too. Beef stew, chilli, soups, broths, casserole dishes, etc. My wife is confined to a wheelchair and having all the canned goods throughout the winter is a Godsend. We would...

I have a niece who does that sort of thing about 4 hours a day 6 days a week. She is in Chicago and evidently she does very well with her little business. She spends all day Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at garage/yard sales, flea markets, and auctions. Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesdays are...

We have gone through many changes in our chicken population over the past three years. There was a time when I provided 6 to 8 dozen eggs to our soup kitchen every week. But the stupid government got in the way and now the soup kitchen MUST purchase those sickening white eggs with almost clear...