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Are you planting it where the veggies will grow, or in between? I love this idea. I have never done a cover crop before, but would love to do that. I also wonder how would this be to plant in the 'chicken corral' for when they are let out to free range?

1) How big is your garden area? Traditional garden rows / raised beds / pots or containers / combo? Is your garden on your property or do you have a community garden plot (or a combo of both)? the area set aside for the veggie garden is about 40x70 ft. Its a combo of rows, and raised 4x4...

If you have a Vacuum Sealer (like Foodsaver) and a jar lid attachment, you can cut up your lettuce, put it in a half gallon glass jar and vacuum seal it. It keeps over a month like that without wilting or browning. We have to do that because we live 4 hours from where we grocery shop. A half...

Will you be share milking, or putting the calf on a bottle? I did share milk the first few months, so I had time to ride in the summer without having to worry about milking, but as soon as the calves were 4 months old and things here settled down, I weaned them off to a bottle only (They had to...

quite a few people do that, milk into a smaller bucket then dump and refill. I have a belly milker so I don't have to deal with it. You will LOVE having your cow. Playing with milk is so much fun! :weee I use gallon glass jars to chill my milk in, as Jerseys tend to give a good bit. My 2 year...

I've made bread by hand for 30 years...this year I got the book Artisan Bread in 5 Min a Day. Boule bread-OMG that stuff is so good! No kneading, no rising, and you can keep the dough for up to two weeks in the fridge. ( i put it in the back room which is mighty chilly) I take a hunk whenever I...

We have 2 DIL's. One, we loved, showed nothing but respect for her, went out of our way to be there whenever she needed us, and she vilified and cut us off from our son and their daughters. Our other DIL is a fabulous girl who goes out of her way to make sure we get to see and spend time with...

I make ghee with my extra butter. Ghee lasts forever in the pantry. I hear there is ayervedic (sp?) ghee that is over 100 yr old. Its great to stir fry with, or make french toast or any of those thing where butter usually will burn because of the high temps. Ghee has a very high smoking point...

here is a blog on making mozzarella. I can't post the url yet, but you can find it on a blog called forpeteysake dot blogspot dot com and it is the June 9th blog called par for the cheesy. Good luck!

If you are using raw milk you don't need to use calcium chloride. If you want a mesophilic culture you use clabber. For a thermophilic culture, use yogurt.