thanks for your input. i have been thinkin about that myself. i think i will do a few posts like a test run. becuase i don't have to pay for anything to start. so if i don't think it is worth it then i will stop. and i have been thinking about writing to magazines too. what magazines do y'all...
my plan:
*get the garden fenced in
*get as much as possible from the garden
*dehydrate produce
*sell/ give away extras
*get in a permanent herb garden and don't kill it
*grow as much as possible for the goats
*keep a good journal!!!
*get some apple trees and/or berry plants :fl
okay that's...
good heavens! i was expecting like 10 ideas... now i have WAY more topics that i am knowledgable in then i knew i knew... hope i typed that so you understand what i mean...
since i am on a few forums and each is about different things i figured i would ask on all the forums... now here is my...
hello! about to sign up on a website to get paid to write articles. haven't signed up yet because i want to get a good list of topics that i can write about. so here is what i have so far...
~topics for articles~
hand milking
making a raised garden bed
growing potatoes in hills
growing the 3...
i have two little lemon balm plants from last summers garden in a window box. i planted the rest of that box with radish and lettuce seed. hoping to get some salads before spring... trying to keep my green thumbs busy :P
i also have green beans in a window box that i used to test the seeds that...
interesting...
so what are ways that were used to prepare and cook grains that were healthy in those days? and (dare i ask :P ) do you have any links? i would love to grow some of those old strains and try out the recipes! i dont like that white sponge "stuff" they label as bread anyway...
been reading about ancient people and what i've found says that they harvested wild oats and wheat and all that. they harvested from wild sources and didnt grow it themselves. so that means they ate grains... so i'm confused... why no grains?
oh! and in china/japan (somewhere over there) people in town went in buckets and at night you put the buckets out at the street and in the night people went around with wagons dumping the buckets in the wagon and dumped it in the fields as fertilizer.
oh, and the toilet paper thing, i lived in a house for a long time that there was no running water at all. there was a big chest freezer out the back door that collected rain water. that was used for flushing and watering the dogs. drinking water was got from a friend down the road who had a...
lovin this topic!
been thinkin on humanure for a long while...
someone posted about puke, yes it can be composted with everythin else. it's stomach contents that came up instead of going down... :P so it's safe from what i've read.
i got the humanure handbook from the library once. that was the...
ugh... my green thumb is getting the better of me and i'm dying to go to moms house and get my little plastic dome seed starters... i'm seriously thinking about walking over :P ... but it's like 4.5 miles.... with plenty of hills and snow... :/
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that's hilarious! i don't think i could do the paleo diet becuase basically what are "no-no"s are pretty much all i eat.... i'm a meat and potatoes kinda gal :P
but really i don't like most veggies. this year i'm growing tons so i can try different stuff. but for the most part i'm just...
bag balm! my dad swears by the stuff. he says before you go to bed to soak your hands/feet real good in water, towel dry em, put bag balm on, put socks/gloves on, and go to bed! repeat for a few nights until they are soft.
ya, goats are crafty little bogies! i have heard the same bad news about sheep... mean and people shy... i'm going with angora goats myself... soooooo cute! :love :love :love
the snow is melting some and there is a few blades of grass poking out... my thumbs are itching like crazy!!!! :barnie
i got a little greenhouse for christmas but i don't know when i should put it up.... :hu this ohio winter is making me crazy!
just bought radish and lettuce seed for my window...
personally i don't understand why you would want to eat that restrictivly unless you were doing a group "year in the life" kind of thing like "the edwardian farm"...