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Question about dehydrating small stuff: I bought a Ronco dehydrator (yeah, I know) at the Big Lots earlier this year. I had one when my kids were little and had reasonable success with - although it was used primarily for meat jerkies (son) and fruit leathers (daughter) and those really nice...

I spent ten years working in a financial counseling office. It's astonishing to me how people handle money. The head of the department would always say: What you have is what you have. We saw most clients in the below 30K range...but we also saw folks in the 100K+. It's all in how you...

I don't know for myself but Barbara Kingsolver swears by Ricki Carroll's book and supplies. It's here with a look-see http://www.amazon.com/Home-Cheese-Making-Recipes-Delicious/dp/1580174647/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1230852024&sr=8-1 My public library system has it - maybe yours...

THANK YOU. NAIS is just another fascist intrusion. I work at an Extension office *for now* and I put the huge NAIS display over to the side of the lobby where you might not even notice it.... I had to call the Maryland Dept of Ag to see if those forms were current and the person on the other...

You said God and DeWalt in the same sentence....bless you. :) Hey - I'm about to come over that "hill" between me and you and find you, girlie.

THIS is why The Matrix is my favorite movie of all time.... (I really should go start another thread, but my granddaughter will be in here a few for the night....)

Oh wow - the other night I updated my will, strapped on a life jacket, tied myself to a rope, pocketed a supply of bread crumbs, and went into.... THE PLASTICS CUPBOARD. Dear heaven, it would have to be America where you can go buy potato salad at the deli (my dh does this), eat it that day...

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck.... I went over to Middletown and bought a rabbit hutch this morning from a lady. (the scary part was that I was thinking "I bet you could also put two chickens in here." It REALLY is an illness....) I'm getting the hutch so I can get it ready to put one...

Wow - good for you. I know it's really really hard to give up a "sure" income and depend on what comes. The grid is nothing - if not lulling with its FALSE sense of security. Bring your back over here and let me pat on it. (ps. Remember what I'm telling you so you can tell me in a few...

I was really lucky to have found the entire box set of the Little House books at a yard sale. Re-reading them as an adult a few times has been enlightening. And no - it wasn't all sweetness and light...babies died, hard winters, bad crop years....they had stress too! But, by god, I'd rather...

I'm sooooo sorry, Quail. Dear little Maggie - may she have lots of chickens and things to guard in doggie heaven - brave little pup. *crying, too* --Jenna

December 23, 2008 Well, I'm so stoked! I contacted a local organic farmer about work because he had an employment note on his web site. He's interested in having me on board next year! He has organic veggies, bees, free range poultry. The farm produces rain barrels and uses harvested water...

I saw the best idea...it's on a Web site for a lighthouse where you can go and be a lighthousekeeper. http://www.roseislandlighthouse.org/keeper_options.html Since the lighthouse is located on an island, water conservation is even more important...so they keep a "tinkle tracker" in the...

Okay - I guess it's time I broke down and subscribed to that. I've carrying the subscription post card around in my work bag for weeks now.

Our local paper did an article on this very topic - how people were moving to productive gardening more and more as the economy gets tighter. When I was growing up in the 60's EVERY family I knew had a garden - it's just what you did. Ours was immense and supplied most of the food we had...

Mine is the square umbrella-ish kind. I like it because I can basically stand in one spot almost to hang stuff out. The only thing I don't like is how close the individual lines are - but I only use every other one. And I use both the spring and the other type of pins...they're useful for a...

TanksHill, I SO know this feeling. My dh very happily called me into my "studio" the other night - which has been under construction since 6 months ago when he took out the ceiling to replace it. I thought I was just looking at the finished room *FINALLY*. Now - me...I've been saving to put...

Yes, ma'am. That's me, too. :)

Okay - I can speak literately about this one. I'm the administrative assistant for the Master Gardener coordinator in my county. This is actually my second county to do this. Your class is a DEAL - ours is $200. Make sure you also understand what your responsibility for volunteer hours is...

I never realized how many veggies you can plant both spring and fall and also how many veggies will winter over in the garden until I read Barbara Kingsolver's book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle recently. She takes you through her family's year of being "locavores" - eating only food that that is...