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We do Chamomile also. Super easy to grow. Don't have to plant it every year. We have a bed set aside and it comes back up every year even bigger than before. Its easy to harvest too so the tweens get that job. I like a little lavendar with the chamomile too. My mom has an old fashioned rose...

Well its sold with the spices but I like to make my own vanilla extract. Its the best. I use the beans afterward in cakes or custards. Pretty yummy and cheap. I bought vanilla beans online on Amazon and some vodka. I plan on making some with rum this next time too. We also keep a bay bush( my...

I'm in Kentucky we can buy a 3 bedroom 2 bath brick house with 3 acres and a barn for 107,000. The same thing in massachusetts which is a thousand miles away might sell for triple that or more. Right now I could buy a 10 acres lot for roughly 24,000 us dollars. The one I looked at for this...

If you had time, we dealt with our using leaves and grass clippings. We tilled and raked and hoed stuff in. We had neighbors giving us their leaves and grass clippings even. We had hard red clay. It took a couple years before it was garden worthy though. I think my mom even added worms but I...

They will find out you have some to share and they will take it all. Sadly too many people like that. You have no idea how many times this conversation gets rehashed. Every time I hear someone saying all they need is their gun. They will go down to the sucker down the road, kill him and take...

Cheepo, I cannot agree strongly enough. What we do right after Christmas is we look at our budget for the next year. Seriously I budget way far out. Sometimes the budget has to change but unless there is a good reason like Huge medical bill the budget stays the same and we stick to it. I start...

With all these changes going around. Apparently even if they avert the cliff we still will feel a bit of pinch and then there are tax penalties with the health care thing. Of course everything getting more expensive. So what are you doing to prep your budget to cope with all this?

There is a rule in our house. No animal gets a name until I know the gender. Didn't need that rule till I got chickens but thats the rule. When I figure out who is who then they ALL get names. The boys are named after food and the girls are given sweet names and each child can claim one as their...

We always buy used and for smaller vehicles we have done fine. My big issue came when we had our 4th child. Finding a good vehicle that holds all of us is a bit of a challenge. If anyone can get their hands on a Honda Accord those things drive forever. We bought one cash for 3500. My husband...

Interesting. Since I am sick I am spending the day studying up on this. The only ones I know who could make it have died so I no longer have the option of just asking them. I do remember when we walked we picked off light green buds. She also would pick off sap for us to chew. She called it...

Well my children passed on a really wicked cold and I am coughing and congested so I am going to test out another recipe with pine needles I found. They made pine needle tea with copious amounts of honey and some lemon. I will edit and add the recipe I find and I am going to drink it today. I...

Ok I have seen this made roughly 30 years ago. For the longest time we had a jar at home. An Oma I adopted in Austria used to mail my mom a jar now and then. She would go walking in the mountains in the spring and as she walked she would pinch off pine buds. She was picky about from which...

That is the kicker. The butcher we are going to is actually cheaper than the grocery store. They have more customers than they can handle at times but I drive 45 minutes every months or so to stock up. I even buy the really nice cuts of meat when they put them in the discount freezer ( which is...

Lol considered it and tossed the idea away to be honest. I enjoy eating meat. That would also require me to cook seperate meals for the entire family and myself. They won't give up what they enjoy and I would feel horrid making them. Honestly I can eat all the meat I want as long as its really...

To be honest I would like to hear more too. I wanted to buy one but my husband is one of those that says " I can do that". And so we are going to do just that. I swear he and his father can design the patience right out of me at times but the results are almost always great and they are so sweet...

I should say that I intend to keep every one of these. Raise my own grass fed steer to provide beef for the family. Go hunting this year to provide deer for the family. Raise my own meat chickens to provide for the family Raise half of the plant products we will eat this year Learn to milk my...

I added activated charcoal to my cabinet today after an unfortunate incident with beef liver from the supermarket. Evil evil place to get meat but I will say the charcoal tablets gave me quick relief. I am not all better and am still taking these every few hours but I feel better thankfully. I...

I am also adding Jasmine as in studies it was as effective as some medications for anxiety. Now along with what oils we like. I would really love to see how we use them. Right now most of mine are added into a carrier oil for massage or added into olive oil to use on my skin and hair, some...

I am going out and getting the activated charcoal. I have never used but I am simply miserable. My doctor of course thinks its all in my head so she had already refused tests for bacteria. I tell you, never complain of anxiety because now through eternity you will be fighting a "its all in your...

Ok, so only eat my own chickens, only eating beef and limited pork from the butcher. My stomach was doing great. I can eat whatever and not even a twinge. BUT the butcher had no beef liver and my mom makes liver balls at Christmas. Its a German thing. Anywho, me not thinking at the soup she made...