Official Poll: What are the products that you make/produce at home?

[flowerbug]

I purposely allowed some purslane to survive in a few select areas of our garden. We love it for salads- and it stays fresh in the fridge for way longer than lettuce does.

i eat it once in a while, but mostly i just like it as a nice cover crop that is different than grass - it grows really well here in almost every garden. i have a pretty tough time getting rid of it completely, but the stirrup hoe does a pretty good job of knocking the younger sprouts back and then they can eventually dry up.

 

[Denim Deb]

Same here! It would be so much easier if I had my own land, but that's still just a dream.

 

[Support]

Besides making our own toothpaste and deodorant, laundry detergent and other household cleaners, eggs, garden and mini orchard, and jams, I also do some wild foraging and make medicinal preparations from plants both wild and domestic. The list of what I still WANT to do is much much longer, lol!

Wow, I wish I could try and be successful too at laundry detergent making.

 

[Britesea]

I would love to hunt for game... successfully. lol.
Sorta sounds like all of us together just might equal one pioneer woman, lol

 

[BarredBuff]

My sister is the true hunter. She has luck and skill at the same time. I don't have any luck lol.

 

[sumi]

I have neither luck nor skill. We just startled a wild rabbit on our farm when we went to pick spinach. By the time I recovered from the shock the thing was 100 yards away and still running. Not a hunter, me. Nope.

@TwoCrows What do you make/produce?

 

[TwoCrows]

I am not a hunter either, although I am a crack shot with a rifle! Just can't get myself to take a life unless it is suffering.

I make a lot of breads, jellies and pastries. Can't you tell by my big butt?! Ha! I didn't do a garden this year for the first time in decades. Our drought is so severe and our well pump can't take the abuse I put it through last year. So I can't can this year. :-( But I love to put up the veggies! I tried making pasta once, but it was a disaster.

My hubby likes to stretch things around here and one thing we do is take liquid hand soap and water it down and put it in a foam pump dispenser. Wow, a bottle of hand soap goes for EVER! He claims we have saved hundreds of dollars on soap! LOL

Oh! We used to fish farm!!! Trout ponds. Wow, was it nice to have fresh home grown fish! But it was a lot of work and got to be too much. The fish kept jumping out too and the Ravens would hang around and eat them.

I like to sprout alfalfa. I always have a jar around sprouting seeds. We make salads out of them. And the poultry love them too!

I like to sew and used to make a lot of clothing, curtains and other assorting things. My machine is getting old and needs some repair. So I haven't done much with that late.

Oh, we produce some electricity. When we lived in the RV for a few years, we were totally solar. Loved it! But when we moved in here, we didn't have the cash to convert the entire place. But we do have solar panels that do various things. Right now the only one doing anything is the panel that aerates our septic system. We have another that charges batteries and other small items. We have several propane generators that can charge things or run the house if need be.

I think that is about it on what we produce. I would love to be able to do more and be more independent. We have done other stuff in the past. But for right now, this is all we are doing.

 

[baymule]

We live in town on a small lot. I have hens in the back yard and a garden in the front. I can, dehydrate, freeze and make jelly. I butcher old hens and the occasional rooster from straight run chick purchases. I butchered 7 chickens a few days ago and canned 21 pints of broth. I picked the meat off the bones and froze it.

We'll be moving 160 miles north at the end of the year on some acreage. I'll plant fruit and nut trees, grapes, berries and a BIG garden!

 

[frustratedearthmother]

That's awesome!

 

[Britesea]

It's always so exciting to make plans for a new start!