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You can use other types of grapes, even wild muscadine grapes. The reason that Concord grapes are recomended is because of their strong grapey flavor.

I blanched and froze 20 qts of beans. These beans were grown from 50 FREE Cherokee Black pole bean seeds that I received from someone on another site. I planted them in the end of May. I never expected to get such a bumper crop! We have left some pods on the vines and will not pick the remaining...

I purchased 10 boxes of canning lids for $1 each at Dollar General today. Yesterday, while DH and I were going to the bank, we came across a box of FREE things on the curb. I made him stop so that I could check out what was FREE. This drives him crazy! In the box were various brown bottles...

I got a FREE refridgerator/freezer this past weekend. I needed another one to use part of the year when the garden starts to really produce, but it is still too warm for storage of the produce in my basement and hatchway. I usually start to have a problem with the overflow beginning in...

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Dace, Penny Poop, my RIR, was limping back in May. I thought that she might have bumble foot, so I treated her calloused feet for bumble foot. I trimmed the calloused area and then soaked them in epsom salts and warm water. I then tried to clean any hard (bumble) crusts out of the wound. I put...

I have an assortment of hens, 2 of which are Jersey Giants and 1 is an Austrolorp. One of the giants has the clasic yellow foot bottoms while the other is more black/peach mottled. My Austrolorp has black/gray foot bottom. Without looking at their feet I can tell them apart by their combs. My...

My pear tree gave me about 75 pounds of pears last year. I peeled some and placed them in water with "Fruit Fresh" once I had peeled enough to put into jars I jared them up with a light syrup and processed them according to the Ball Blue Book. I also made Pear Mince Meat (internet recipe) and...

I started stripping back the extra leaves from some of my brussels sprouts today. I then chopped the leaves up and gave them to my chicken girlies. They just love the leaves from crusiferous veggies. I also put the piles of mowed grass from my yard in between the rows of beans in my garden. It...

I made 9 jars of raspberry jam today from raspberries that I froze last fall. I got tired of moving them around to make room in the freezer and decided that it was time to make some jam from some of them.

Finding useful FREE stuff is the next best thing to finding money.

I had to take DM into town Friday. We passed a yard with a pile of "stuff" with a "FREE" sign in front of the pile. Needless to say, we pulled into the next driveway and turned around. My haul from the pile was a leaf rake, an almost new Yankee candle (Winter Bayberry), 2 old muffin cups, and a...

The geologist at the TEA Party had said that it was not economically feasable for the oil to be extracted from the shale unless the cost of a barrel of oil was at least $100. He had said that that was one of the reasons that it has not been developed yet. But accessing the natural gas was...

The TEA Party I attended went off well. There were about 130 people that attended the one in St Albans Bay. I felt that this was a good turn out for a rural area like ours. I have not heard yet what the counts were for the other 5 TEA Parties in Vermont. There were speakers from our area who...

Gee ticks, I have never found St Albans to be as you described. For a town its size, it is clean and NOT nasty. The park in the center is lovely and we enjoy the farmers market there on Saterdays. We are trying to maintain a downtown and so far it has been successful. There is a hospital, a high...

Guilt? Why should you be guilted into anything? We each have our plans for celebrating the fourth. I hope you enjoy your plans for the fourth, what ever they may be. I will enjoy mine. I was just asking a question and maybe my patriotism took over. That is one of the things that is great about...

I am not sure about the sprays but I was wondering if you have tried boiling water. I have used a gallon of boiling water, poured into an ants nest that I have partially opened with a trowel. has worked well for me. I read somewhere (not sure where), that ants dont like to be around their dead...

I am curious who is going to attend a TEA Party over July 4th weekend. I will be attending one held in St Albans, a town 30 miles from where I live. Vermont will be having 6 TEA Parties around the state, Most of the sites are new from the 2 sites that we had for the TAX DAY TEA Party. I hope...

That is what Massachusets does, already. There are plenty of people in Mass that have opted to pay the fine instead because it is cheaper than their portion of the cost of the health care that the state offers, and they cant afford the extra health care cost still. I saw a segment on a program...

I have been drying soap (store bought) in my oven for a week now. The soap that you buy now a day is very soft and melts quickly. With the cost of bar soap so high, I decided to try and dry it out more. I have noticed tha the soap that I have opened an left in drawers to scent things, over time...