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Yes, homeschooling has no schedule in my home. It takes the rhythm of the seasons and the work load. Kids learn all day long. When it feels right, we sit down and do theory. They don't really know what weekends are actually.

Don't put yourself down that way. I also have that recurring feeling. It's actually realising that you spent your life knowing futile stuff that had no purpose. I used to be really good at knowing celebrity stuff like who was married to whom and how many kids they had. Now I'm lost when I...

lol Great story happydog ! Nice to see you here!! Maybe if you had rubbed and shined it a genie would have come out :P

Oh that makes perfect sense. Dehydrated is a much better idea than canned. I did that last year and all of it went in rice, which was delicious.

I also did my garden plan on the Mother Earth News planner. It was free for a month so I played around a bit then I put it down on paper when I was more sure of myself. And now that my month is expired I have loads of ideas and I want to move things around. I would definitely save some...

I have the same manual one from Berry Hill. Will use it this year with the tomatoes, can't wait!

looks great! AND inspiring! I could definitely use something like that.

I also have a tiny one that I use to grind coriander seeds or cloves but that is the extent of the use I can make out of it. I have a grain mill and a hand powered food processor for the other, bigger jobs.

Oh those rabbit sausages sound awesome but maybe a bit too much work for me. Sometimes I wish my days lasted 30 hours or more....

Thanks everyone for the nice words of welcome. I think the hardest thing for me is dealing with the "knowing", which I didn't do so much while living the city life, working full time. I didn't know and didn't care about the quality of the food from the store, about the state of the...

What is wonderful about asparagus is the time of year that it is harvested. You eat it in Spring when nothing else is growing and it just tastes like Spring to me. It encourages you to work in the rest of the garden. They are one of my favourites in the garden. If you have too many then just...

After a couple of hours at 15 lbs pressure, you can break the bones with your fingers. It's safe for the dog, believe me. In the liquid that is left in the cooker, I add some quick oats, some cooked carrots or other veggie and mush it all up for the puppy. Home made dog food!

I also raise rabbit for meat. In the Summer we put them on grass/weed in rabbit tractors. And they eat for free. To process them, we do a pull. Holding the back legs in one hand and breaking the neck with the other. Very quick, then slice the throat a second after for bleeding. They are...

Some major items are helping us to achieve self-sufficiency. The Scythe : Essential to harvest hay and feed livestock in winter Axes and buck saw : harvest fire wood, and logs to build with Wood cookstove: We can cook and heat the house in the case of power outages Wheel hoe : haven't used...

Hey Kathy!! Nice to see a known face! Can't really welcome you as I'm also a brand new newbie, but I'll say hi anyway.

Hi guys! I'm a homesteader from Quebec. Moved from the city to the farm a couple of years ago so we're very new to all of this. We have chickens for eggs, rabbits for meat and goats for milk. We also have a rather large garden and we preserve most of our harvest either by dehydrating...