Tag: homesteading
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March 02, 2008 09:11 PM EST --
I have decided that this spring/summer/fall, I am going to focus more on canning, preserving, etc....all the great things my husband grows in the garden. We have the dehydrater and I have a couple of . . .
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August 08, 2007 03:26 PM EDT --
Are there others out there that dream of homesteading? People that live off the land as much as the possibly are able to without worrying about how many material things they can accumulate over the years . . .
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March 25, 2007 06:43 PM EDT --
I know many of my nothern friends are still in defrost mood from the harsh winter ya'll suffered, but I am curious to see who's ready to plant the garden? If you aren't ready to plant are you . . .
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August 03, 2008 08:56 PM EDT --
I haven't been on here much, partly because I've been kept hopping between feeding the birds and watering or tending the garden. I never knew that relatively few plants could seem like a homestead. . . .
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March 07, 2009 05:14 PM EST --
Check this out . . .
free packet of organic lettuce seeds
http://www.ebfarm.com/AboutUs/GrowYourOwnOrganicSalad/index.aspx
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March 24, 2009 10:40 AM EDT --
Hey everyone!
Just wanted to let you all know that I won't be here very much the rest of this week . . . . I need to get the farm accounting work done, so we can get our taxes done on Saturday. . . .
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April 15, 2009 07:02 PM EDT --
It has a been very productive around the farm this last week . . . .
My husband came home on 4/6, so that he would be home to take care of the animals when the boys went to their 4-H Livestock Judging . . .
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December 31, 2006 06:42 PM EST --
I have a small flock of free range chickens: three Americanas, ten Australorps, one silkie (named hoppy due to an unfortunate accident) and one Guinea hen. I've raised them from baby chicks. They were . . .
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May 22, 2008 12:20 PM EDT --
After years of talking, my husband and I have decided to follow our hearts and take the big leap. We're going back to nature! We have 40-acres in northern Michigan, and we're going . . .
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March 14, 2009 11:56 AM EDT --
Life has been hecktic around here recently as our kidding season has finally gotten underway with the dairy goats.
All of our dairy goats give birth, and the kids are removed at that time . . .
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March 24, 2009 10:56 AM EDT --
I found a vet who would work on our little girl about an hour away, so last Thursday (3/19/09), we drove her up.
The vet was late getting back to the office. So we waited for over . . .
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April 08, 2008 07:16 AM EDT --
I wrote a couple of weeks ago that we had ten chicks out of 11 eggs that our cousin put in the incubator for us. Yesterday we lost one. It was separated shortly after it was born because the others pecked . . .
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September 17, 2008 07:14 PM EDT --
"The Original Guide to Living Wisely" is how Mother Earth News describes itself. The magazine has been in publication since the early '70's, and for good reason. This is just a great . . .
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October 03, 2008 01:42 PM EDT --
What do you do to get ready for winter?
Since our society is mostly housed in cities or suburbs, with heat, light and water at their fingertips, we don't think about getting ready for winter . . .
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March 24, 2008 09:01 PM EDT --
Well I promised updates on the chicks and here it is. We started with eleven eggs and we have nine babies from them.Here is the cute little buggers now:
These are eight . . .
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March 14, 2009 11:15 AM EDT --
Goat meat is eaten more worldwide than beef. Really you ask. Over 70%of the world population eats goat meat. About 63% of the red meat eaten worldwide is goat meat.
In this country, a . . .
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May 25, 2007 01:59 AM EDT --
Homesteading in the Twentieth Century
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live without modern conveniences? What would . . .
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January 14, 2008 02:29 PM EST --
Hello, all! I don't know how in depth this entry is going to be, so just be prepared to throw your hands in the air and close the browser window or delete the email it's in. As I said in my . . .
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August 02, 2007 01:59 AM EDT --
I really didnt know what to expect for today when I made plans this week to visit with an internet garden forum friend.
Last week she had posted a thread stating she had some pepper plants that . . .
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August 27, 2006 12:32 AM EDT --
I don't know that I am so much of a homesteader as I am a survivor on a homestead. I am a fourth generation to be on this family owned ranch in the Colorado high country. My job is...well, everything . . .
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