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Tag: microfarm

  • Design a raised-bed garden

    Like I said last week, Planning a garden is not easy, it does take a good amount of work since there are so many details involved. Growing a garden for a family of 7 plus pets takes a lot more planning than it would for a family of 2 or 3. With what we have…

  • Garden Starting

    In life so far I have learned that it is better to start your planning early so you can calculate the messes and the hiccups that inevitably come with every single thing you try to do. Planning a garden for a family of roughly 7 or 8 give or take if we have visitors or…

  • Re-working projects

    Unfortunatley I was again swept away by the chaos of the wonderful month of October. . . A super grocery trip in the big city to stock up for the cold winter days so we dont have to leave the house in negative temp yuckie snowy gross weather. The super planning for the kiddos halloween…

  • Soap ???

    So in my half asleep stupor last night after finishing a new soap batch. . . I realized I have a serious question that I want your answer to !! When you use a cooking pot to make soap, Do you need to add soap(Dawn in case our ducks get greasy) to the dish when…

  • The IN between

    It’s now fall and half winter . . Yesterday, the kids helped make those oreo ball things you see on Google sometimes. . .we didn’t have chocolate chips, so we used Lindor truffle candy bars and . . .lets just say they are just a little too sweet to eat a whole one . .…

  • Why the change

    I was in a kinda yuckie car wreck and can finally talk about it. My knees are destroyed from impact and I cry everytime I have to drive on snow of any sort. The could have got killed situation really woke up somthing inside. I have 3 small kids and I am only 30. .…

  • My herb drying test

    I know it doesnt look like much now but the vision is had for this mess of string is a bit better looking when it will be full of those drying herbs. I threw in a sneak peak with it being used so it does work and I will do a tutorial post in January…

  • Tomato seed harvest

    I was sent a small tomato harvest from a viewer and was told to do what we can with them. . . . We extracted the gel covered seeds and water bathed them for several days. This is the first batch of seed that i got from some very juicy tomatoes at my job. I…

  • Drying and Planting

    I have been really into learning how to make our home more self sufficient and . . .home made, i know whats in the food i make, sort of thing. . .30 is a wild year. . . I went to the store and found some good quality but low priced prodcuts on the market…