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  1. cabinguy

    Interesting article about whole milk

    https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/07/cheese-butter-not-necessarily-linked-to-death/565253/
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    Foraging

    Ive never tried it before, but if you read the attached link above the pic it says its good for sipping ( ill let you know in 3 weeks:drool) and cooking. The chanterelle mushroom has a fruit like flavor which should work for flavoring the vodka.
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    Foraging

    http://foragerchef.com/yellowfoot-chanterelle-vodka/ Used my excess shrooms to make Chanterelle infused vodka
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    No bees but plenty of squash bugs

    Aw leaving them would be to easy:barnie you harvest the cocoons because they have many predators such as wasp, leaf-cutters and pollen mites to name a few; they are also susceptible to fungal diseases. When you put them out in the spring time it allows you to place them as needed some by the...
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    A2A2 milk

    Thanks for all the reply's I was thinking their was going to be more controversy about A2A2 milk and I only talked about milk quality and little about the traits of the cow that I'm breeding for such as food consumption,pasture grazing,easy calving,longevity and good "handles" for hand milking...
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    A2A2 milk

    What do you all think about A2A2 milk ? For the last 5-6 years we have been working on breeding A2A2 Mini Jerseys. We started with a mid sized A2A2 Jersey cow and have breed down to Mini the, Mini's were just to expensive. Now we kind of prefer mid size over mini cause their easier to milk...
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    No bees but plenty of squash bugs

    Mason Bee houses have tubes or reeds in them . The Mason bees crawl into the tubes and lay eggs and then they seal the tube with mud. The eggs turn into cocoons by fall. In the fall you open the tube and harvest the cocoon and clean them with a bit of bleach and water to sterilize them. then you...
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    Foraging

    Today we went to another State park score a bag of the smaller chantrelles but check out our other find we will help the GD rehide never know what your going to find.
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    Foraging

    upper left honey mushrooms lower left and right two different varieties of chaterelle and the middle coral mushrooms.
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    No bees but plenty of squash bugs

    Mason Bees are native and can pollinate 100 times better than honey bees without the honey. Do you harvest the cocoons ?
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    Foraging

    The Wife and I scored today.
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    difference in garlic size w and w/o scape

    Ive always read to cut scapes to increase garlic bulb size by 35% this year a few didnt get cut check out the difference .
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    succession-planting

    Yes I make it. Its really easy but it takes 3 or 4 weeks. You put garlic bulbs in a old rice cooker on the warm cycle and wait till done. Make sure the rice cooker is not in the house because its very very odoriferous the first week. When done the garlic becomes very sweet and soft and has a...
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    Black walnut hulls

    Check this out you can use black walnuts to catch worms and fish
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    succession-planting

    Thanks BB I think Ill wait till the end of this month to plant the Mustard. Glad you enjoyed the pic MMD Thanks for the compliment Bee on the house and the garlic Ive been working on two different varieties. I started growing garlic about 4 years ago, I purchased 4 or 5 heads of each from a...
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    succession-planting

    I just harvested 1/2 my garlic today a bit early but I planted my tomatoes in the middle of my two beds of garlic and thought they needed some sun, so I harvested one of the side beds. My plan is to top dress the bed where the garlic was with composted manure and plant Mustard greens ( Florida...
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    cabin buddy

    Never know what your going to find when your foraging he was the prize of the weekend, came home empty handed without any morels. Im on vacation this week so im hoping to find a few chanterelles last year was a good year for them.
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    cabin buddy

    While foraging for morels this Spring we found this little guy in a holler at the edge of a creek in Ritchie county WV. He is a eastern newt in the terrestrial Eft stage and yes poisonous to keep predators from eating him. While researching what he was I found the attached below explaining a...
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    cabin buddy

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