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howdy yall so after being away from consitent internet use for the last year has kept me from posting or even browsing this site very often but now after a long time looking i have finnaly settled on what will now be my home farm. i have moved to a great 80 acre farm surrounded by lake ontario...

alright BB i have pulled a couple big burdock roots in the last couple days what is the best way to process this for later use

mrs. puff i agree putting food by is the best canning\preserving book out there i think. i am down with all those book kinda canning ideas i guess i am looking for somethings with some personal touch or what ever.

today i drove to toronto and back in just over 7 hours! that is a three hour drive each way......sheesh!! oh well ya gotta do what ya gotta do sometimes i have been finding that i am just spending my time after work doing things i enjoy of the ss sort mostly wprking in the gardens and messin...

ya considering the all other stuff i am always pullin from the trash i figured a plant was pretty obvious !?!

ohh a terrible thing happened to me this week with a sage plant a good friend of mone in toronto gave me one of three sage bushes from her yard. she has brought these guys along for almost ten years through canadain winters etc.. they are huge like a shrub! well she gave me one with a long...

well not quite but i have a tonne of peppers banana, shepard (not yet red), bell (green and black) and many cayenne, etc. i am looking for pickle recipes i am usually a fan of the spicy italian styles but am open to new things i am NOT into sweet pickles looking forward to seeing what you guys got!

well i guess lots of us from farming communities will know that the saying " the #$!@ hit the fan" comes from manure spreaders doing their work the "fan" being what would distribute the manure cold enough to freeze the balls of a brass monkey supposedly comes frome when cannon balls where...

i can see how that would work well. i am more of a production kinda guy, get set up well and crank'em out. mind you i have never done chickens before but i have processed lots of dead animals in the past. when doing my chef apprenticeship i worked at a classic italian place and had to do a cpl...

well i am sure i will be processing my first birds with out a plucker for sure. i am hoping to process 100 plus birds a few times over next year so that is really my thought behind the plucker. i must say though that i have close to traumatic memories of pluckin birds from my childhood and my...

cool thanks for the link there are lots of csa s running out of the bigger cities here i just dont think it has caught on enough here for the rural communitys yet. i think pricing is a huge factor too! most people in farming\rural communities wont pay the prices that can be got in the bigger...

i didnt see it in the observer i will have to get my lawyer on that. i am having the standard print a retraction\correction next week it was to be in this weeks paper but they forgot. beleive me they wont again after my lawyers call!!! my plan next year is to have aroad side stand i am...

yes BB i was trying to express the point that the folks around here would not know organic from well a hole in the ground except that maybe they are a bit or a lot more suspicious of organic farming than the hole.

it goes something like this "cops pop pot plot" apparently my 15 immature plant were worth 15000 bucks!! if i knew that maybe i would grow it illegally hahaha and yes MTN its true i hear rumors that the guys who are farming my land this year are the biggest growers around, makes sense seeing as...

i return i have been lurking i will try once again to keep up this journaling mostly these days i have been busy with work. i have had huge staff issues at my toronto offices and we have now fired everyone there except my secretary\assistant. so i have been there lots helping my BP with...

ya i would recommend an OLD oster for sure. i owned a juice bar a lifetime ago and they were the best next to of course my vitamix but i understand that they are not in everyone budget. i just have to have a commercial kitchen at home. it is the all metal drive system in the old ones that are...

Great thanks alot luckily i am moving into the empty house so i can make sure to get rid of all fleas in there before i move anything in and then can be sure to treat everything thoroughly before i move it in to the house. I am planning on making the move in about 6 weeks so this should work...

volunteering has always been a large part of my life, or should i say community service. though at the moment i am doing nothing of the sort. one of the first projects i worked on was in kingston where i grew up on and off and around in my late teens early twentys my not yet bro in law and i...

good morning i have been meaning to post this for awhile now this year for the first time ever i have the worst flea infestation ever. i have tried everything that ican think of drops (both cheap and expesnsive) baths every couple days constant brushing with the flea brush etc. they started...

ah yes beekissed you do have me there i will say that the lack of punctuation and capitals is a style decision i made years ago that i am trying to break but as i have no formal education i am sometimes at a lose as to how to use punctuation properly and as i subscribe to the have nothing nice...