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It has been awhile since my last visit and I just wanted to say "Hello" to everyone,..I really missed being here and just glad to be back! :frow

Okay,..to some of you this may be a dumb question,..but to me,..well I need to know. Our food we purchase in the store,..how can we tell where it is grown or "made"? Most all of the packaging states "distrubuted by such and such",..but no where did it come from. :/ Some food states that it is a...

Today my Dad call me and tells me that he has some paperwork for me. He gives me this survey from the USDA,..it is a survey to find out what kind of animals you have or how many acres you own and how much pasture, do you farm or ranch??,...blah,blah,... My question is, has anyone else here...

Yep, I am way ahead of myself allready on my garden :clap . I have done ordered all my seeds and now I have to come up with a frugal way to start the seeds indoors. I know you can buy all the fancy little burpee greenhouse thingy's and the jiffy pellets, blah, blah,...but I want to be as frugal...

Right now I am stuck with dial-up internet service,..which I am not real happy with. I have been looking at the satellite internet providers like Wild Blue and Hughs Net,...my question is does anyone here have one of these service providers and if they do,..well,..is it worth it???

I seen this tonight while I was surfing around. I thought it would be nice for some who are a little afraid of the pressure canners to read this. It is very interesting. ;) http://missvickie.com/library/history.html

I am wondering how many of you do actually celebrate Thanksgiving? My DH and I have been "talking" about Thursday and dinner, myself for me it is just another day. For him, its all about food. It is only us and the kids, no relatives. I just want to watch football and eat whatever I decide to...

I know many of you on here may have heard of this, but this is for the ones who haven't. Everyone on this site is or wants to be more self sufficent and this organization ties directly into that. We all want local farm fresh foods whether we raise it or our neighbors does. This site is about...

I finally got DH to move my chicken tractor he built me a year or so ago. DS and I gave it a new coat of paint,..it was an awful shade of green,..so we painted it a nice sky blue. We got it all set up and moved my new babies in,..10 little white silkies! :D Aren't they sooo cute??? I know...

Did anyone else watch Food Inc. on the POV segment on PBS today??? I am sure most of everyone here has seen it. This was my first time watching it,...enlightening to say the least. :D

We lost one of our ducks to a bobcat the other night. We had the ones that he left locked up with our chickens in the warm and dry. Yesterday we decided to let them out and they went out on the pond. Today our temps has dropped below zero with the windchill. We have tryed to get the ducks off...

I am not new to processing chickens, but I am new to buying a "breed" made specific for it. We usually just butcher what was here, but DH and I would like to buy some just for butchering. We have dicussed the cornishX and many dual purpose breeds. I would like to hear some of your experiences...

This is a great recipe and it is sooooo easy. It is GREAT on a warm biscuit!:drool (This recipe can be cut in half) Granny's "Red Hot" Stovetop Applebutter 22 cups of applesauce 10 cups of sugar 3 8 ounce bags of "Red Hots" candy 1 box of SureJell (pectin) 1 .125 ounce bottle of cinnamon...

I recently have been introduced to the world of Paw Paws. If you have no idea what I am talking about, don't feel bad. I have lived in this area almost all my life and had never heard of them, much less ate one. They are a fruit which grows wild here and many other areas of the eastern states...

Okay I am about out of canning jars,..I had 6 wide mouth quarts that I scrounged up to use today to can some beans. I have never used wide mouth jars before, so I thought I would give it a whirl. They all turned out okay but one, the lid crinkled up on it. I know this is supposed to be from over...

Hey everyone! Enjoying this forum very much! Me and the family are in WV, the south eastern part. We live about 15 minutes from the State Fair grounds. We live on a small farm and live the frugal lifestyle. We have chickens, "had"pigs(in the freezer now), and we hope to add goats real soon. We...