What all do you produce?

[BarredBuff]

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[FarmerDenise]

We produce:

sweet corn ( fresh, frozen and canned, stalks used for feed and shelter for critters)
green beans (fresh, frozen, canned, pickled and feed, greens and remains used for goat feed, worms (catarpillars) in beans used for chicken feed)
dry beans
peppers, sweet and hot and in between
paprika, dried peppers, frozen peppers, canned peppers (mostly hot pickled ones) and sometimes ancho peppers
carrots
tomatoes and tomato products (fresh, dried, canned and frozen)
Millet (2 kinds, seeds for birds, chickens and grains for us, dried stalks for goats)
Broomcorn (for grains, greens for animals and broom making)
sunflowers (flowers, seed, greens and pretty)
peaches (fresh, canned, frozen etc)
weeds (assorted, for animal, human and medicinal)
herbs of all kinds (used fresh, dried, in teas, tinctures and oils)
popcorn ( used fresh, dried, for animal and humans, greens used for feed and shelter)
amaranth (so far used for feed only, greens, seed heads, hope to use grains and greens for human consumption in the future)
sweet ptatoes (first year, looks like we might be successfull)
pumkins (all sorts, 3rd year of volunteers only, uses: pies, soups, feed, snacks for chickens, humans and goats)
watermelons
musk melons
asian melons (first year, so we'll see what that is like)
blackberries (berries for everyone, jam, sauce, foliage for tea and feed for goats and chickens)
rasberries
strawberries
blueberries
persimmons (fresh and dried, foliage for animal feed)
cucumbers (fresh and pickled)
Zucchini (fresh, frozen, in tomato sauce, and made into our favorite relish)
swiss chard
lettuce
herb seeds (ie: dill, parsley, coriander)
herb flowers (to use in tea or whatever)
Lavender
plums (italian drying plums and burbank, for fesh, canning and cooking)
apples
mustard (assorted, for salads, cooking greens, seeds - made into mustard and used as animal feed)
beets
onions
garlic
shallots
elephant garlic
artichokes
potatoes
acorns (fall into our yard from th neighbor's trees, use them for feed and art projects)
walnuts (fall into our yard from th neighbr's trees)
roses (use the trimmings to feed the goats)
Flowers (for pretty and seed and feed)
anise (seed and greens for goat feed)
grapes, we only have eating varieties so far, for eating and greens for rabbit, chickens, goats and leaves for us.
lemons (fresh and frozen, zest and used for preserving freshness in other fruit etc)
peas
kale
broccoli
cauliflower
cabbage
asparagus
wheat
oats grass
safflower
buckwheat
flax

snails (like other bugs, these are inadvertent, but we could eat them, for now we feed them to the chickens)
assorted bugs, caterpillars etc, when found we feed them to the chickens, otherwise the help themselves

chickens
eggs
milk
kefir
yogurt
simple cheeses (so far)
kombucha
wine
apple cider vinegar
fruit juices
teas
tinctures (medicinal)
ointment (medicinal)
goat meat (we got the boar baby, we just can't butcher him ourselves, but we will sell him for meat or pet or ...)
medicinal and flavored cooking oils
seeds for planting
all kinds of dried produce
brooms (from the broomcorn we grow)
luffa
firewood
wood
hay
fertilizer (aka poop)
laundry soap

 

[Theo]

Oh, I like this thread! This is the third year of cultivating our small property. We don't live there yet--we rent the farmhouse to a friend. But we are slowly turning an old pasture into a large garden. When we retire, we'll move there. Then I'll be ready to have a couple of goats. In the meantime:

2011

POULTRY

Eggs

MEAT

Chicken (I've only butchered 1 so far, but I have 5 cockerels who will be butchered in fall)

OTHER LIVESTOCK

Honey, 2.5 gallons (our second year as beekeepers!)

FORAGE/FEED

Just free ranging for the chickens so far.

VEGETABLES

Garlic -- we are self sufficient in garlic!
Potatoes -- ditto
Blackberries -- I guess you could say we are self-sufficient in them ...
Elephant garlic -- it is feral on our property and we have all we could ever want.

These crops have not yet produced a harvest:

Broccoli
Cabbage
Tomatoes
Brussels sprouts
Hubbard squash
Zucchini

So you see, we've made a start. My goal is to become self-sufficient in various foods every year, putting more land into production and gaining expertise as I go along.

GOALS FOR 2012:

POULTRY:

I have 5 new pullets this year; nest year I expect to have eggs to sell and hatch.
Raise some meat birds and freeze meat (but not ready for self-sufficiency yet)
Hatch replacement hens and cockerels, hopefully with the aid of broody hens!

FORAGE/FEED:

Raise field corn to use as supplemental food for chickens
Fence in the chicken yard so they can spend more time out of their run foraging (we used to let them run free but we lost three to predators)

VEGETABLES;

Expand garden. Improve soil with compost.
Year-round plantings of cabbage. Achieve cabbage self-sufficiency!
Grow a small patch of field corn, which will supplement chickens and make cornmeal for us. Corn self-sufficiency!
Continue potatoes, which were easy to be successful with and provide a lot of food.
Find a way to grow onions--voles eat ours to the ground.
Establish a new bed this fall for planting blueberries in spring, ditto for strawberries. This will take a lot of ground.

NEW PROJECTS:

Build a hoophouse. I'll get a start on it this fall.
Buy an old tractor. Use it for cultivation and for cutting the lawn (we currently do an acre with a lawnmower, not a rider.)

 

[Marianne]

This year:

Potatoes
Tomatoes
Bugs
Eggs
More bugs
Weeds

 

[Wifezilla]

You produce weeds too Marianne?

My crop is quite impressive this year!

Other than weeds....

Critters:
Duck eggs, Duck meat, Quail eggs

Critter feed:
Minnows, Duckweed, String algae, Sunflowers (when the squirrels don't steal them! )

Herbs:
Oregano, thyme, chives, taragon, horse radish, mint, chocolate mint, cilantro (LOTS of cilantro!!!)

Veggies:
Tomatoes, hot peppers, zucchini, pumpkin, dutch bantam corn, sweet potatoes, buttercup squash, cucumber (when the bugs don't get them all), mini melons, lettuce, cabbage, bok choy, spinach, carrots, beans, kale, swiss chard, garlic, amaranth

Wildcrafted:
Purslane, Lamb's quarters

Fruit:
Apples, peas, and loads of grapes

Nuts:
Chufa

Not too bad for a tiny lot in the burbs

 

[BeccaOH]

This year there wasn't much garden to brag about and really none to preserve:
Tomatoes
Zucchini
Peppers
Basil (best of all the garden)
Eggplant
Broccoli
Green Beans (died)
And plenty of weeds, including lambs quarter, which is edible
Apple trees

I also have:
Chickens (will butcher extra roos and maybe do some meaties this fall) and eggs
Ducks (may butcher my first this fall, but they have so much more personality than chickens :/) and eggs
Turkey (just started a pair of breeders)
Geese (I use them for guards and eat most of their eggs)
Rabbits (just fertilizer since they are mini Rex)

Foraging:
Raspberries
Blackberries
Elderberries
Some greens

 

[JRmom]

You guys are an inspiration! I won't post my measly efforts (well, I can grow 'maters!). But you all keep me plugging away and inspired to learn.

 

[Neko-chan]

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[savingdogs]

Wow! You guys have long lists! Here is ours:

Eggs from the duck and chickens and occasionally meat (mostly roos)

Milk, cheese and ice cream from the dairy goats

Meat rabbits eventually (don't really have enough to eat them yet)

From the garden:
Zucchini, peas, spinach, some grains, corn, tomatoes, pumpkin, potatoes, assorted squashes, radishes, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, oregano, grapes and beans.

I make soap and laundry soap and bake my own bread and pizza dough.

We have nettles and blackberries growing wild that we harvest in season.

Not a long list, but I hope to improve on that!

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

I don't think my list is that long or impressive - but first I want to ask does producing babies and breastmilk count?

Animals:
Chickens and eggs
turkeys and eggs (but we had to start over this year)
ducks, ducklings, and eggs
Geese, did get a couple goslings, and eggs
Have a heifer, planning to breed her
Have a goat, hope to breed her

Future Animal Plans (as in this fall/winter)
Raising at least 15 meat chickens for my family
Raising 2 hogs for butcher

Garden:
Potatoes
Tomatoes
Green Beans
Yellow Squash
Zucchinis
Blueberries
Strawberries

Planted but not harvested from yet:
Rhubarb
Asparagus

Animal Feed:
Sunflower seeds

Foraged:
Blackberries
Elderberries

Bartered for:
Peaches

We also have bees that we haven't harvested from yet.