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How did the yogurt come out? My DH and I think ours has a much better taste than store bought, more mellow and less of a harsh note. I even like it plain, and I never did the store bought. I am making soy yogurt, but I bet milk yogurt is also better homemade.

I just bought the most amazing flashlights from LL Bean. They are a rechargeable crank flashlight, one minute of cranking gives 1/2 hour of LED light! They are plenty bright enough for walking around, not as good for throwing a light long distances. They say the battery will last more than 10...

We always go to a big family pot luck, so I need to take a main dish for DH and I. I like to take something that everyone will like, in fact it usually goes so fast that I have to make sure we are early in the line! My all time favorite is Green Chilie Cheese Enchaladas. YUM!

Who couldn't help but fall in love with such a beautiful thing! Congrats to you!

We decided this morning to take down all but one hummingbird feeder. We have not seen a hummer since Tuesday, we will still keep one small feeder up for stragglers. It is always a relief when the hummers leave. We only have 3 or 4 pair that breed here, no problem. But starting in July and...

Be careful to know what you would be getting into as a country store owner! I did 6 days a week for 7 years, people come early and stay late. They even banged on my home door behind the store on Sunday! If you want to go anywhere or do anything you need a substitute that you can trust, and...

I don't backpack anymore because I like to be home every night. We have been hiking parts of the Continental Divide trail occasionally, we live practically on it. There is some amazingly beautiful and wild trail with a LOT of elevation gain and loss. So I am a really bad speller, in spite of...

Jerrit, How do you market all those eggs? And what is it like to take care of the hens? I am really curious about what your day must be like! What do you do with all the manure?

Red only occasionally, Green about 120 lbs. in the freezer for two people for one year! Sometimes it is green three meals a day.

So this evening I went to put the hens back in the secure pen from the field pen and had a problem. Two fawns were inside the orchard where I wanted to put the hens. The does easily leap out of the field pen with it's 3 foot fence, but this is the first time the fawns have jumped the fence in...

I'd give you a hug if I could... sometimes life ain't all that smooth. I had to laugh though about you trying to get the roo in, I know people would laugh at me so hard sometimes if they could see me scootin my hens!

My local co-op had a member appreciation day, and they called me to say I won a door prize. I just picked it up and it was (drum roll...) A Honkin Big Tote Bag, full of groceries no less, WooHoo!!!

Wow, what a nice place to live! I have never had wild turkeys, I would love to get the chance to watch them.

All right, you made me curious! Here is an answer I found online: Are canned goods that are frozen inside the jar safe to eat? If home or commercially canned foods freeze, they are still safe to eat IF the seal (or seam of the can) is not broken. When commercially canned foods freeze, the...

Hi Jay! Being vegetarian and especially vegan can mean a lot of new cooking lessons. I have been working at it for years and am still learning. I have ethical problems with feeding my pets. The cats really do need meat protein, and the chickens are omnivores like the dog. I don't have any...

Ahh, but you don't really know me yet! :lol: My art is in many media, I usually work on more than one area at a time. I do elaborate beadwork, pen and ink, colored pencil, scratchboard, watercolor and more. My main emphasis is detail and realism, most of my work makes people scratch their...

Well here goes, I am a bit sensitive but I'll take a chance and let y'all know a bit more about me. Everyone I know thinks of me as wierd, but in a good way. 01. Name? Susan 02. Gender? I grew two kids inside of me. 03. Disneyworld or Disneyland? Neither, crowds scare me. 04. What is your...

There are different types of wheat for different cooking. Some wheat is for bread, and has a high gluten content to allow it to make a lot of structurally sound bubbles, thus a nice light loaf. Some wheat has low gluten content, like the cake flour wheat, no structure and lots of crumb. Also...

I buy my gluten flour on the days my co-op has member appreciation discounts, twice a year. I keep it in the pantry in a glass jar. I have never seen a bit of scent change or other sign that it goes bad, and I swear by the stuff in my baking. It really just adds the bit of help to whole wheat...

ScottyG, I can really relate to you, but I have leaped a bit farther with some consequences. I am an artist, AND I am doing chickens and growing food and cooking from scratch. We have to live on less money than if I had a regular paycheck, especially in this economy. The gardening in...