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Hello! I am interested in starting to make vinegar to have on hand. I do a lot of cleaning and whatnot with it, and I want to be prepared for next years cucumber crop since this year is costing me an arm & leg buying vinegar. I was hoping that someone might have one to share or trade for?? I...

Im removing my rant....I got it out, thanks for reading and letting me have my rant.

Hello, I was wondering if anyone has an extra vinegar mother they would be willing to trade....or perhaps gift if I pay for shipping? I have a store on ETSY of items that I would be willing to consider for trade. My store name is the same as my screen name here. Thanks!

I just had to share this, I was so excited by how I made out on my last bartering mission! There is an organic grain farmer that I have gotten to know well and buy my flour and dry goods from when I can. Well, she wanted some hemming, mending and flower gardens mulched and said she would pay me...

So a few weeks ago a customer came into the store I work in. He was glowing over the 10 gallons of sap he harvested from his sugarbush, and bragging about the birch stand that he harvests too. That got my little gears turning, and I started driving the city streets looking for maple trees to...

One of the Meijer's supermarkets in town frequently has a "clearance" veggie rack. Whenever they have veggies that are past their prime, they bag them up and sell them at a discount. Sometimes it's a really good deal, sometimes it's just a few cents off a pound, but I pick up pennies off the...

Two weeks ago I did my first batch of all grain brewed beer. I was finally able to come up with an affordable lauter ton (cooler from Grandma's basement) and another big stainless steel pot to boil the wort in (3.5 galllon stainless milk bucket also from grandmas basement). It has now had a...