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I had HGTV on this morning while I was freezing corn and they happened to profile a family moving from Australia to New Zealand. I can't remember the name of the town but everyone there was responsible for provding their own water system (ie either a rain bin or well of sorts) and their own...

Wow! I second Bimpnottin, how the heck did u do that?

That's a great idea!! Thanks bunches FF!! On another note I got a dozen ears of corn for $2.00 today! So we bought 4 1/2 dozen :) Most other places are selling for $5.00 a dozen. I see lots of blanching and vacum sealing in my future....

About how much are you all paying for tomatoes in your area? I know it will vary alot but we went to the farmers market today and I was really wanting to stock up on some tomatoes to do some canning with (ours didn't do so hot this year) and they seemed a little more $$ this year than I...

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We're definetely getting to that point. I ate eggs at my moms house the other day :sick And I made myself a grilled cheese sandwich at my aunts the other day...i.e. orange cheese slices wrapped in clear plastic with white bread and margarine...major :sick :sick :sick

Hard eggs shells for my girls! :lol: Sadly she does buy eggs from another coworker. But I don't think she has ever asked her what she feeds them. As a matter of fact, I don't even know what she feeds them. I'm coming to the slow realization how out of touch people (including myself!) are with...

Good to hear! I thought that it would be ok. Everything I read said that the first step to making good cheese is to "mess it up first." Lol. So I didn't think it could be that bad for them. There are seriously days they wait until it curdles more to drink it. It just really freaked me out for...

We inevitably always have goat milk that doesn't get used in time and have just been giving it to the chickens. And honestly, some days it has been so hot outside that it curdles while in the container. They seem to love it even more then. Is it ok that they're drinking that? None of them has...

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Ugh. We've only had these guys since March and we've already dealt with staff infections on their udders (our stupid mistake of using wire in the barn in their area. Apparently wire is too tempting to NOT jump through and cut your udders all up :rolleyes: ) And then the goat that seems a little...

Or does it seem like there is ALWAYS something going on? I feel like we get one problem cleared up and then there's another right behind it! Is it there curious nature that causes them to get into trouble? Or is it the fact that we're new to this and are probably making mistakes and learning...

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TY WZ! I'm adding all kinds of new words to my farm vocab! :cool:

So does creepy meat/frankenbirds always=cornish cross? And what exactly is a freedom ranger (breed)? I is corn-fused!

I LOVE THIS BOOK!!!! I stole...er...borrowed it from my dad. :lol: It literally has almost everything in it you would need to for a homestead. And like you said it is very well written.

So I just googled "creepy meats" just to see what came up. The first 4 results are from OFG's blog, and then there's one from Javamama from this site!!!!!! So 5 out of 10 search results are SS'ers! :lau And thanks FF!

We got some heritage breeds to use for meat birds and needless to say, its taking them FOREVER to get to a good butcher weight. And then I read about people processing their creepy meats in 6 weeks. So we're wanting to try a different breed next time to make this more $$ worth it for us...

Yea to get started I think we'll have to do just that. Just spend a little each paycheck and buy small amounts of things or stuff we find on sale. It's can be kind of $$ to get started. I will definetely be glad when we get to the stage of having mulitple of the things we need and can just stock...

It's so funny you should mention the LDS store! I actually called them today but missed their store hours. They're only open M-W and saturday from what I remember from the message. And it's only for a few hours at a time. I wanted to call to see what they had and their prices. You have to have...