Q and A: sunflower seeds for chickens and storing canned items in a dirt-floor...

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Sunflower seeds for chickens I feed no chicken food to my hens. The only corn they get is people corn. They have never had any shots or medications. That said, can I feed Pennington's Oiled...

Q and A: coating cheese with wax, open-pollinated plants, canning cheese, and prepper shows

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Coating cheese with wax When you make cheese, do you coat it with wax for aging? I've done it both ways and am usually not real successful with the wax. No matter how many layers...

Good news on my knee

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I waited (painfully) for several days to get my MRI and appointment to orthotics. But it was worth the wait. I had been babying my knee as I was afraid I'd torn a ligament...

Spring brings lots of work

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We've been hugely busy now that the snow's gone (for now anyway!) and the weather has warmed up. We had saved up over winter and bought a trailer load of livestock panels and pipe...

We are enjoying the cool day

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After a summer with temperatures in the high 80s and 90s, it was such a relief to have a nice cool, windy day today. Our friend, Heather, came over and picked some zucchinis we...