Q and A: meat bones, weed killer with soap, worming goats, and re-canning corn
Meat bones and weed killer with soap
First. If you take deer bones after cutting deer up, cut up bones and boil you will be surprised how much more meat from the bones that can...
We added a new breed of chicken to the homestead
Yesterday, our friend Dick called to see if we were still interested in getting a few of his rare breed chickens. Of course, I said yes! They are Whiting True Blues, bred by Tom...
Q and A: Canning with cornstarch and Feeding scraps to chickens
Canning with cornstarch
I made 14 quarts of apple pie filling from a recipe in BHM. It called for corn starch. I just ordered your new canning/cook book and noticed your recipe for apple pie...
With a tractor to help, our compost pile gets serious!
From a modest compost pile a few feet high and about 10 feet in diameter, we now have a compost pile thirty feet long and about five feet high...thanks to our wonderful mule, Domino,...
The pumpkin/corn patch is now fenced
Will, Krystal, and I finished hanging the last two sections of the 6-foot-high fencing on the new pumpkin/corn patch. We had decided to wait for a more doable cash flow but the deer were...