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For as long as I can remember my lips and ear canal would tingle after eating certain fruits, especially cherries ad peaches. So finally I just googled it and it turns out it is "oral allergy syndrome" what an original name right? I always just thought it may have been some reaction to a...

Okay okay, the breeder down the street, an aquantance of mine, is selling Nigerian Dwarf goats. She shows and breeds them and we stopped by today to see the baby goats(she has 17). I like the look and temperment of her goats, I've tasted the milk before.. Any input on Nigerian Dwarfs? All her...

We have erected two purple martin houses this year and I think I saw the first scout yesterday. I came home to find a medium sized blackish bird flying in circles around the backyard, circling tighter and tighter, touched the purple martin house in the backyard and then flew off. I'm hoping...

I was feeding the animals this morning and passed my rabbit hutch that had a broody sitting on some eggs. I stopped to think, I don't remember how long she'd been sittig on them so I decided to check and see if they had busted and eaten the eggs. We had both of our previous broodies do it, so we...

Came home, fed the animals and went to check the goose nest for any new eggs. I have given them 15, which they have been setting, so I was taking any newly laid to avoid a scatterhatch. Shoo the mother goose away, move the fir branches, and move the pineneedles aside only to find.. NOTHING. My...

One day in the next couple of years, my husband and I plan on moving to Virginia and buying a farm. An orchard is definately in the plans and we have a few fruit trees here. My SS goals, include growing the vast majority of our food. I plan to cut grocery stores out of the picture as much as...

Okay, so I recently asked about heirloom and open pollinated plants and have since then done plenty of research. I have just purchased 5 varieties of tomatoes, some because I wanted to try them and others because I thought they would be cool conversation pieces. LOL The micro tomatoes, these...

My husband and I are getting spring fever and the garden is just callin' our names. We are "de-evolving" this year and realized that us having to purchase those hybrid bonnie started plants everywhere, was not part of the long term goal. Not a terribly big issue, but I know that there are...

I mentioned to my husband a few days ago that I wanted to build a chicken tractor this year and go in with someone one some meat birds. I get a call on my lunch break asking where the Lowes giftcard was... I thought he was making me some bigger rabbit cages and came home to a 10'X10' chicken...

The peach tree is the only one large enough to produce fruit and really the only one I'm taking an interest in. ((The father in law planted the other three, two pear and a plum LOL )) We've only recently reclaimed the peach tree, it had been allowed to grow at it's whim and was too large and...

This is going to sound strange, but I get potato chip cravings. Not so much the chip itself, but if I have a sandwhich, I HAVE to have something crunchy like a chip. Lately I've been substituting those vegetable flavored crackers or something like that, but I would be interested to hear any...

I have mostly mice in my barn, but now there are a couple rats that scurry for cover when I walk into the barn. I know a cat will control the mice, but what about the rats? It's still to cold for my slithering rat eating friends, so I'll have to look in the ways of mammalian. I know there are...

Among my many projects in the making, I have worm bins. Those are ready to go, as it warms up a little bit, I'll be getting the worms. From what I have read, horse manure is hot. So that's a no-no for the worm bins and a no-no for the garden. So then that leaves the question what to do with...

I would like to create a website. Any suggestions for free website hosts? Little random, but decided to ask anyway. :)

Well, it's been in the long time coming, but I think I would like to get more aggressive with my pasture management. The main problem? Don't have very much money to put into this. Weed control? Usually later in summer, the pasture gets pretty weedy and since the FIL sold his bush hog, we have...

My in-laws have been using a woodburn stove as the sole source of heat for about 3 years now. My FIL just deployed to Germany yesterday for 4 months and apparently some of his parting words to his wife were to 'be gentle' with the woodburn stove because the pipe has become pretty thin and even...

I posted this elsewhere and then realized I should post it here as well. This is a recipe an old beekeeper shared with me, he makes it every year and gifts if out for Christmas. Adam and I used this recipe this year for the first time with great success, everytime Adam sips a little while...

We were getting ready to do in some rabbits today and hubby and I decided we would eat before. So, hubby is now making some spaghetti and I'm playing on the computer a few feet away from the wood burn stove that is solely heating the house. Adam then refills the kettle that is kept on the...

Not for me! :P But my mother. My mother and father divorced a couple of years ago and my father is already remarried, but my mother is still alone and looking. It seems to her that all the good ones are married. Where in the world do you find a gardener, handyman, Christian in today's world...

Since Adam and I have very little money to spare, as it the common predicament of college students, we have simplified how we do our Christmas. We usually just flat out ask what the other wants for Christmas and even have us pick out our own gift. Well, I asked for a trio of Silver Fox rabbits...