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    Egg Carving

    I have a wholesale customer that we private label for. He has a home delivery egg biz and has expanded to selling baked goods and a few of our products. He came by yesterday to pick up some jams and told me about a new product he is making...carved eggs! He uses a dental drill to make them. I...
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    Happy Earth Day 2017

    But, shouldn't everyday be Earth Day?
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    Worm composting

    Bought a Vermihut Worm Bin for the kitchen. While we have our compost pile outside, I like to dress directly around plants with worm castings, but they can be expensive to buy, and a worm bin will also help to produce even more worms than we get in our outdoor compost and garden naturally. As...
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    Hawk Proof? Humph!!!!!!!

    After limiting where the chickens can free range and still losing another to a hawk the other day, I decided to try something that would further limit the hawk's glide path...short of completely fencing off the top of this large area....flagging tape. Let's see what happens...
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    Garden Path

    I posted a couple of these pictures in my Garden Pond thread a few days ago, but since it is not part of the pond build, I'll continue here. A number of years ago, we bought two huge pallets of irregular slates. The plan at that time was to build a small patio on the side of the house for the...
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    Garden Room

    Now that the pond is up, we are moving to another project...the garden room as I call it. It is a 10 x 20 bump out between the end of the chicken run and the slope down to the cesspool. For the past two years this space just "existed" with a small raised garden. We removed the raised garden and...
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    Food Revolution Summit

    6th Annual Food Revolution Summit https://www.foodrevolutionsummit.org It's Free
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    For you (ahem) older folks.

    Came across these on YouTube. The Beau Hunks are a Dutch Revivalist music ensemble who have performed and recorded vintage works. (They took their name from the 1931 Laurel & Hardy short film of the same name.) They have been referred to as a "documentary orchestra," because they perform...
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    You want cute? Wait until you see this!

    Just imagine the training, not only of the dogs, but the crew that did this commercial! This is so cute!
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    Adding new chickens to our flock

    We decided to add 6 - 8 new chickens in March/April depending when the weather breaks. Over the past 4 years, we've gone from 16 down to our present 3. (We free range them and the dwindling is due to hawks and foxes.) We were going to get chicks and raise them in a separate area in the coop...
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    A New Garden Pond in the Pocono Mountains

    We recently came into a modest sum of money of which we used mostly to pay down loans (who doesn't?), but we decided to take a chunk of it and treat ourselves to something we have wanted for a long time. After the desire to have a garden pond for many years and talking about it for so long, we...
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    Where's the Christmas Candy?

    Today, as I was walking around our local grocery store picking up some last minute things for Christmas Eve and Day, I decided to get some of those delicious Dove Milk and Dark Chocolate pieces. So, I wound my way over to the aisle where I saw the Christmas candy display so many times since...
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    Growing Christmas Trees

    When we moved here 21 years ago and cleared a field from the woods, and we toyed with the idea of growing Christmas trees....we never did. Today, I ordered 100 each of Fraser Fir, Balsam and Douglas Fir seeds. I am going to start them in the greenhouse and then transplant them outside in the...
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    Looking into solar power

    I have started looking into solar power...mostly just reading about it on the net and looking at products...and, it is just about all Chinese to me. While I would love to put up panels all over our roof and power all our needs, we could never begin to afford it, but I don't want to scrap the...
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    Dry Canning

    Today, I am going to try dry canning, something I have never done before. I have 25 lbs. each of organic long grain white rice, black beans, and green lentils. I am going to use my FoodSaver with the cap adapter on wide mouth 1 qt. Ball canning jars. The first batch of jars (24) is in the...
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    Now here a nice root cellar!

    Wouldn't this be nice if you had a few spare weeks and few spare thousands? How To Build A Root Cellar In Your Backyard by Robert We decided that our little farm needed a root cellar to store our produce in. For those unfamiliar with the term, a root cellar is an underground room that acts...
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    CONSUMED - The Movie

    I came across this movie on Netflix yesterday called Consumed. It was made in 2015. It is a dramatic movie that explores the complex world of genetically modified food. The story is anchored by a working-class, single Mother on a hunt to uncover the cause of her son's mysterious illness...
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    17 NATURAL ANTIBIOTICS OUR GRANDPARENTS USED INSTEAD OF PILLS

    From the website: backdoorprepper.com For hundreds of years, maybe even longer, our grannies and grandfathers relied on simple household items to heal. For that purpose, they picked different natural antibiotics, which they mostly found in home, gardens or meadows and woods nearby. Much of...
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    Prep 101: An Introduction to Getting Prepared

    Whether it's a bad storm on the way or Armageddon, and whether you are a novice at being prepared or have a 3 room luxury bunker, I thought this "chart" might be of interest. This is from the website Emergency Essentials.
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