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This lady works from home (her DH is a civil engineer for the state) and she raises chickens for meat and eggs, sheep (lamb for butchering), sells baked goods at farmer's market, and does some sewing. I think she does a pretty good business since people have found out she will do little jobs...

There is already a seed-sharing thread going on here somewhere. You should post there. Lots of people are looking for seeds.

The thing is, it smelled like that when it was BRAND NEW.

My mom gave me a large bottle of grapeseed oil for Christmas last year, but when I opened it, it had a funny rancid smell. If it was regular veg oil, I would have thrown it out. Is it supposed to smell like that? I've used a bit of it in stir fries and such, and never noticed a funny taste...

A lady I set up next to at Farmer's Market does alterations out of her home. She hems pants or jeans, and patches holes in for $5 a piece. Pretty cheap I'd say, but we're in a rural area and cost of living is low.

I have a pretty big sweet tooth as well, and I like my coffee sweet. I recently bought some Truvia, and found that I can't tell the difference between it and sugar. Equal and the others taste terrible to me. I cannot eat anything with Splenda (or the generic form) in it, as it makes my guts...

Putting Food By is an excellent book which gives a lot of info about the WHYs of canning. For example, WHY you have to blanch tomatoes, instead of just "blanch the tomatoes". It also has info about freezing, drying, and root cellaring. It's got tons of info about fruit, vegs, meat...

I have a Ruby treadle, put out by the New Home company probably in the 1910s or 20s. I found it at a local thrift store for $40! Came on a very nice stand, all the funky attachments for hemming, ruffling, braiding etc included. AND it had the original instruction booklet for the machine and...

Hey All-- I'm back! Whenever I have started seeds I have found that having them on a slightly warm surface helps most seeds to germinate as much as two weeks faster than without heat. I used a cheap black tray with a clear top (essential b/c the heat will dry out the soil otherwise) and put...

You do not have to pre-sterilize the jars before you use your pressure canner. It gets so hot as to sterilize EVERYTHING. The reason you don't want to boil water in the canner is that when you try to put a jar into the already-full canner, it will have a tendency to bob around and be a pain...

Over 40 tomato plants, expecting some beautiful gems for farmer's market, and last week I had TWELVE mediocre tomatoes which I sold for 25 cents a piece. :( All my plants are rotten. Horrid.

Uh, xpc, I guess I need to be from Boulder to have any idea of what you are talking about. :idunno

Hello all-- Unfortunately I am needing to move from my place of residence for the last 8 years. :( I will have to give up my chickens, cookstove, and all that jazz. I'm in Boulder CO right now visiting friends, and they really think I should move here. I know the cost of living is...

Apparently people in my area are asking for it, b/c I just noticed our Fareway has the Borax, Fels Naptha, and washing soda all right next to each other now. I never could find the Naptha part.

Here's my two cents: As far as being a surrogate for someone else, generally surrogates are required to have already had a successful pregnancy. I know this b/c by DH's DIL was a surrogate. BTW- She received a check for $30,000 for doing it. She was friends with the couple already, and...

We eat a LOT of fish (hey, it's free from every pond around us) so I gotta figure out how to cook it differently than frying every time. One thing I did the other day was take a box of Zatarain's jambalaya mix, add some sauteed onions, green peppers and tomatoes, toss in some chopped up...

I think my house is very "heritage" as ldychef said, but we also have to rely on some modern conveniences. I cook on a wood cookstove when the weather is cool enough, then switch to propane in summer. We don't have electricity, but we do have a generator (which we almost never use), and we...

I have a new "antique" style coffee grinder. I got it as a gift, but it was about $40-$50 online where my aunt ordered it, and it is excellent. I don't remember it having a brand name, but it has a hand crank on top with the little drawer, and the grinder inside is heavy-duty and you can...

I was just going to recommend Seed to Seed also, but Reb beat me to it. It's put out by the Seed Savers Exchange bunch. My local library has it. It has a LOT of info about each species of herb, vegs, some grains, and about growing and seed starting and cross pollinating. It's great and I...

I am in. Another thing we could do is share brand new seeds that we have bought. For example, one pack of seeds often has more than I need for one year (and even two years), so we could share those with each other. I often find that heirlooms germinate really well the first year, but not...