Q and A: Acorns and silver tarps as mulch
Acorns
I enjoyed your blog on acorns. Just a tip: that brown yucky water aka tannin can be used to tan leather, to dye whites beige, as an astringent, can be frozen into ice cubes...
Q and A: drying corn, canning salmon roe, honey, and plantar wart
Drying corn
We had some food grade corn given to us and are wanting to store for use later as corn meal. We have gotten a few rain showers recently and are wondering if we...
All of our spring baby goats have arrived
And a few days after arrival, we face the not-so-nice job of disbudding all of those cute kids. As horns are SO dangerous to both the goats and people (due to accidental bumps), we...
Q and A: enamel-lined Dutch oven with a chip and planting asparagus
Enamel-lined Dutch oven with a chip
Is it safe to cook in a cast iron enameled-lined Dutch oven that has a chip in the bottom? Where the chip is located you can see the cast...
One of our hen turkeys hatched out … chicks
Yep, that's right, chicks, not poults (baby turkeys). It seems Mama turkey found a nest of chicken eggs and decided to sit on them instead of making her own nest. Oh well, she IS...