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Howdy BBH!!! How's it going?

See? He's sitting right here beside me and just HAD to post on the topic instead of saying something to me directly. LOL!

But again, just because "I" did it doesn't mean that every kid is ready to be kicked to the curb at 18 and we all know that boys are notorious for maturing later than girls-heck my husband STILL isn't mature at 52! My two oldest daughters were very mature and more than ready to take care of...

We adopted through foster care so I'm very sorry you're having a bad experience with the department in your area. All of my babies came to me as babies-infants ARE available contrary to popular opinion and the best thing about adopting through the state is that you have resources available...

She's responsible for these decisions she's making, not you. You could let her know that you're there for her but you're not there to bail her out. You could let her know that you know she's been raised with a good moral compass and that you trust her to make the right decision if she takes...

54 cousins here-Irish Catholic family. Don't need to say much more about that do I? LOL!

I actually have a cousin that I just hooked up with again (thank you facebook) who it turns out is also totally into the whole self-sufficient thing. Now this is actually kinda sad because I have well over 50 cousins and we all grew up together under my grandma's wing and she taught us all the...

I know a guy who uses an old car as a dehydrator. He pulled the seats and put in trays and then just lets the sun do the work. It works especially well with meats and veggies that he plans to powder.

I don't know, I think it's kind of cool and not so different from the cloning we're doing with cows right now. We've lost so many species of animal to man's indifference maybe it's time to try to rectify some of that. Just the science geek in me.

I usually roast the carcass for awhile with the veggies and then throw everything in the stock pot or steam juicer to cook. Then I can the stock.

Easy-Friends always called me Lor (name is Lori) and I'm proud to be a farmer from a long, long line of farmers.

Really? So I could get 50 pound bags of barley and oats from the feedstore and just sprout those puppies and give them to my turkeys? And the sunflowers will sprout too? That is SO cool!!!! I've been so worried about my turks because it's too expensive right now for me to buy greens at the...

Which grains do you sprout and how do you do it in large enough quantities to feed them?

One of the best ways to cut expenses on groceries is to not only eliminate waste but plan for and buy for dealing with leftovers. Like this weekend I made a big ham. This week we'll have a quiche, some egg fu yung, ham and egg sanwiches and beans and ham. I make a double batch of meatloaf...

That's what we did. We have no TV at all because out here if you don't have a satellite you don't have TV. But we've got what few TV shows we did watch programmed into the computer on hulu and we do have netflix so the kids can watch the occasional movie and that's it. BIG savings for us.

My grandmother was a good Christian woman who had a real strong Pagan streak in her. She talked about honoring the earth and taking care of her and she taught me to listen to the trees and animals. She'd be horrified if she heard me say this. LOL! Gram always told me that you take care of...

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I agree about the pork. Did you know that in the old days you could rent a pig to dig up tree roots for you? They love to graze and dig for food.

Turkeys ARE a little fragile as babies, more so than say chicks or ducklings but once you get them to a couple of weeks old they're pretty hardy if you've got some good stock and just good common sense to take care of them. Turkeys seem to get along with everyone and everything. We had a duck...

I've read that rabbits are the most efficient, cheapest source of meat for the small farmer. We just got back from the feed store and the cost of chicken food has gone up again. Turkeys are pretty expensive to raise unless you're doing it large scale and can sell a lot birds. You may want to...