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7 Foods So Unsafe Even Farmers Won’t Eat Them – Planet Green.

Filed under: Cooking/Baking, Gardening, Homesteading, Making Home on June 23rd, 2010 | No Comments »

Since I don’t know who my readers are, I am going to cater this post to those who have no idea how to ’step softly.’  This list is just a start to the many, many ways that you can make a difference.  I will try to blog about these individually . . . uh . [...]

Filed under: Bath and Body, Cloth Diapering, Gardening, Green Cleaning, Green Living, Homesteading, Making Home on March 14th, 2010 | No Comments »

So, we got our seeds in the mail.  Yay!  We are looking forward to this years garden.  We plan to make it even bigger this year.  Some of the seeds that I got from Seed Savers Exchange, so far, are:

Garden Huckleberry
Early Snowball Cauliflower
Golden Bantam Corn
Clemson Spineless Okra
Blacktail Mountain Watermelon
Aunt Molly’s Ground Cherry
Scarlet Nantes Carrot
Calabresse Broccoli
Cilantro
Green [...]

Filed under: Gardening, Homesteading, Making Home on February 8th, 2010 | No Comments »

I have gone back and forth in my mind whether or not I should blog about our chicken feast.  In the end I decided that I did want to chronicle the adventure that we had with our chickens this year.
We started out with 21 chickens and didn’t know just how many roosters we were going [...]

Filed under: Backyard Chickens, Cooking/Baking, Homesteading on August 7th, 2009 | No Comments »

Okay, my most recent hogger (is that a word?) of time on the computer has been a great little website called BackYard Chickens.  Not Facebook, not Craigslist, not plain ‘ole email.  BackYard Chickens is my new friend.  I have posted several questions on the forum lately and scrounged around and learned lots of information from [...]

Filed under: Backyard Chickens, Homesteading on May 9th, 2009 | No Comments »

I am so excited about our garden this year.  We have already:

corn
peppers
kale
arugula
onions
okra
squash
zucchini
cucumbers
tomatoes
pole beans
sugar snap peas

I still hope to find time to plant some cantalope, watermelon and pumpkin later this weekend.  I’m sure that I will come up with some other things that we forgot as well.  I have yet to find peanuts, popcorn and [...]

Filed under: Gardening, Homesteading on April 28th, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Still having fun with the chicks and ducklings.

Filed under: Backyard Chickens, Homesteading on April 20th, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Well, we finally got our baby chicks.  Two ducks as well.  We knew that we wanted to get them this year and had been working on the coop/pen for some time.  We got a really good deal on a metal storage building and are using an existing dog pen.  We hope to have the coop [...]

Filed under: Backyard Chickens, Homesteading on April 19th, 2009 | No Comments »