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Looking at the long range forecast and it looks amazing! Think I'll try to tap the maple trees tomorrow! Anyone else making syrup this year? I love having a sugar source from my property. I only have between 5-10 trees but if the weather cooperates we can get quite a bit of syrup produced...

Happy 2018! In the spirit of New Years resolutions I thought I'd open it up to our members to share their goals for the 2018 year on how they would like to improve their self-sufficiency. To really work on accomplishing something, the best goals are specific. For instance, the old new years...

And I wasn't prepared! Ahhhh! :barnie Now I have to make decisions! :hu Some breeds can sell out, so I don't want to miss out!

Given the weather, you'll be forgiven for thinking I'm talking about cars with my title :) But for many January is the time to actually get started on this years garden...even if that just means ordering seeds! Nothing is getting started in my house until February at the earliest, but there's...

Ok, this thread doesn't really have a purpose and should probably go under Random Ramblings... But I've really been taken over by garden dreams even though it's still months before anything is getting planted. Seriously, I've found myself going to sleep with visions of raised beds. What do I...

I'm very excited to have some of these, now I just need to pick a spot to grow them. Anyone else know what these are Do you have some?

Ugh, I hate the idea of having dept! Right now all we have is mortgage payments. Thing is there's a government program that ends this year that would get us a good return on selling to the system. So it's sort of now or never. But because we moved last year we have no savings so we have to...

So I know on such a small forum it sucks when people just disappear (even if you have no idea who they are...activity is good), but I've been feeling pretty terrible, mostly stemming from an inability to come to terms with what I want to do with my life. And I'm not any closer now then I was 2...

I'm just really excited :weee Growing next to our shop; while the little one napped I did my best to clean it up.

Hi there :frow Starting slowly into the homesteading adventure. Had a unexpected move to a new city 9 months ago but was lucky to find a small farm to buy; 63 acres of field, forest and wetland, century barn and a new shop, and a lovely country home. We stretched our limits to purchase this...