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winemaking: dandelion wines
Pick and remove petals from the flowers ahead of time and freeze petals until you have enough. Put the petals in a nylon straining bag, tie closed, and bring the water to a boil in large pot. When water boils, place nylon bag in water, reduce to a simmer, and cover pot with lid. Simmer for 20 minutes and remove from heat.
Cornish cross chickens are the standard meat chicken for the American market. Joe Salatin uses them exclusively in his pastured poultry operation, and most of the small farmers use them as well. All of the pictures for this entry are chicks that are IDENTICAL in age, and they're used to illustrate the amazing growth of these chicks. The chick on the left is a heritage breed chicken, the buff orpington . The one on the right is the cornish cross. The cornish cross goes from hatch to slaughter weight in 6 to 8 weeks.
Chicken economics - cornish cross
Energy Efficient Food Preservation Once you've gotten started with gardening, you'll soon have to find a way to deal with the surplus (hopefully you've planned for this!). Not everything can be eaten fresh.
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It’s starting to really feel like fall here in the hills of Mendocino. Over the course of two weeks we’ve transitioned from hot, dry, sunny September days to chilly October mornings where the fog hangs thick over the vineyards in the valley. Even though we’re transitioning into winter it still feels oddly like spring… after months of staring at dead grass and start thistle, it’s like a breath of fresh air to look at the ground and see actual green stuff coming up: Around now, I try to be vigilant in keeping the all of the vegetables in the garden completely picked. It could theoretically frost at any time, and these days the farm is way too big to wait until a frost warning to start picking everything.
How To Preserve A Whole Season Of Hot Peppers With Virtually No Work | grow it cook it can it
There is a fine line between a medium that is used for mushroom spawn (that is, to transfer to another medium) and one that is used as a growing medium. Some, like cardboard, are more structurally suited to transfer and may not have enough nutrition to take the mycelium all the way to a bountiful flush of mushrooms. Others, like straw, which is messy and difficult to fully sterilize, are more suited to fruiting and less good for production of spawn.
Coffee Ground Mushroom Spawn
November 2008
EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN Putting the Foods You Love Into Food Storage by Wendy DeWitt everythingunderthesunblog.blogspot.com
expanded pantry
