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LOL!! That's too funny.. even funnier is that we call our "meat birds" here, which are colored freedom rangers, Tank! They are all named Tank.. LOL. Anyway.. they are BUSY canners over there, they can everything and anything! A few are real pros at it too I can tell, the canning thread...

Hi Everyone, I thought I might try joining in here on the SS canning thread instead of the BYC canning thread. I have so much in common with all of you, I feel more at home here. :) Last night I broke out the canner... I put up 9 quarts of pickles from my garden and half a dozen half pints of...

I was careful 16 years ago when I was deciding which vaccines to allow and which ones NOT to allow. We opted out for a few, like chicken pox. Even though I was sure I was glad for that, I've decided NOW that I should've had her vaccinated. Back then I thought... this is ridiculous... a...

We feed the chickens frozen berries from the gardens. We also have a system of drawing shades 'here' and moving fans 'there' to bring in the cool air and shut out the sun. Half the house is shaded by trees and that side is the air conditioner. The other half however is in full sun from mid...

That is why we bought ours. Plus being self sufficient in the country we need to haul other things, gravel, mulch, dirt, sand, plywood, construction & garden timbers, firewood/down trees etc etc. Around here we're the strange ones who don't also carry survival stuff in the back.. like a...

Well I gotta say, I misunderstood your original post then, my apologies. Sounds to me like you need to put your paper in the gardens or compost piles, rinse out your cat food cans so they don't attract critters when stored as trash for the landfill and just head out to the dump 4 times a year...

ALL FORMS OF BURNING are frowned upon in the seriously enviro friendly circles. Including campfires, even small fires. You could burn some of your trash if your not a believer of that... but to be minimally responsible about it you would have sort the burnables. You must only burn paper &...

it was a purely by accident discovery as it was what was handy from the chick brooder, when our youngest kitten got spayed and needed an alternate littler for 2 weeks. It was the lack of smell that cinched it for me in a heartbeat. I just kept a pail next to the box with some extra and topped...

Cilantro should almost NEVER be used in the absence of FRESH LIME juice... what a shame you all did not get a real "fresh" experience... it can be such a LOVELY herb! :) Mine just came up in the garden and I couldn't be more excited.

First things first, stop buying so much stuff that needs to be recycled!! :) Second, try using wood chips as kitty litter... I was so impressed with how well the deep layer of wood chips worked, left no odors and allowed for fewer cleanings that I gave up the kitty litter. Now every couple of...

I'd cut it in half and use the two halves as a planter If you have chickens or any outdoor animals and it gets blistery hot in the summer... you can turn it on it's side, place it in the shade and put a couple of frozen gallons of water in it at the back(bottom) and it becomes an outdoor AC...

Well.. I believe I stand corrected ;)

.... wait... my apples might have worms in them??? :sick I guess I'll always have to pre slice my apples then, if I ever get any someday that is :) I personally am on the quest to find a good balance between modern and natural living. Some advancements I believe are honestly good others...

My mistakes are not mistakes... I concur with them being learning experiences... as all are. I tried to garden as if there weren't any tricks, skills or knowledge required. Killed several hundred dollars worth of plants the first couple years... then moved onto seeds. Its taken 5 years to...

Now that is a great idea!!! I am going to try making a scarecrow out of them next :)

thank you :)

Last year I made these designer impostor bags with mine: This year I used them in my Tomato Frame.. an old swing set frame used as the trellis for my tomato gardens. I just filled them and set them on a shelves made of pallets.. they have Jelly Bean tomatoes in them that I hope to train along...

The coops are all in a line.. the line starts about 15 paces off my front porch... so they are close... the line of coops extends about 50 feet and there is one coop on down the line separate in the front garden. here's a current look at the chores... AM 5 minutes - make coffee check baby...

I used to use ours, heck I was so excited to buy my own house and then a dishwasher!!!! Then one day I was inside working while it was running and it was really annoying.. the noise I mean... and it kept going ON AND ON AND ON... pretty soon I noticed that over an hour later, it was STILL...

I just wanted to follow up. We have FINALLY gotten the washing machine to let out in the yard. We have two options for it, which means we can put it in the septic as always or out in the yard easily by switching the hose behind the machine. DH ran a swimming pool filter hose ($38) from the...