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What a crock.

No seriously, it’s a crock! I was at the local Wilco Farm Store yesterday looking for canning jars and generally poking about in the canning section while my daughter was amusing herself riding the...

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The sky is falling!

Seems appropriate…wasn’t that an apple falling on Chicken Little’s head which set the whole thing off? Two things I have a lot of around here right now: chickens and apples. The three new chickens are...

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Food Preservation Tips

A few tips and preservation techniques I thought I’d pass along. Seems like the appropriate time of year, when people are hauling in the last of their crops! * Beans to be dried for later use in soups...

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Beans, Beans, the Magical Fruit

I mentioned a couple of posts back that I had decided to dry my beans. Why? Well, I’d originally planted them to eat them green, but after only a couple of times of that, I just fell behind and ended...

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Cedar Creek Grist Mill

Today was Mother’s Day, and I celebrated first by sleeping in until noon.  Yeah, I’m not proud, I’m not a morning person and my last week consisted of nothing but days of getting up before 7am, mostly...

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Well I’ll Be Dipped. Or Washed.

My friend Hollie posted an article in her blog a while back about the virtues of making one’s own laundry detergent.  Now while I’m into the DIY thing and I like to make lots of stuff from scratch, it...

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Millions of Peaches…Peaches for Me….

Well, not millions.   Last year we planted a Frost Peach tree near our garden, and waited to see what it would do.  This spring it had lots of beautiful pink blossoms, which our honeybees seemed to...

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How Not To Use Castille Soap

I’ve been making my own laundry detergent for a while now.  I’ve tried a powdered formulation, and while it’s much easier to store, I much prefer the results of the liquid variety, and will be...

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Home Remedies: Part III – Nausea, Upset Stomach, Heartburn, Reflux

See also Part I – Cuts, Scrapes, Bruises and Burns and Part II — Sore Throat, Cough, Stuffy Nose. Part I has the long version of my disclaimers: I am not a doctor, this is not medical advice, please...

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Adventures in Cheese

One of the things I’ve been meaning to do for a long time is learn to make cheese.  It seems mysterious, but I know people who do it, and it didn’t seem so much hard as a wee bit complicated.  So when...

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