Wannabefree, if you are looking for exotic pocket pets, what about sugar gliders? Ferrets aren't quit as exotic, but still popular in many area. Or chinchillas (the rodent, not the lagomorph). Chins can be sold as either pets or their fur, for which they have been historically bred. Another up...
I didn't plant any pumpkins/winter squash last year, but the year before I grew Pennsylvania Dutch Crookneck, and they kept in the cool room (back bedroom) from Oct until this past winter when the last one was finally eaten. So a full year.
This year I'm planting more Penn Dutch as well as a...
What type rodents? My middle-middle child (with Mum's help, of course) had a small "rattie rescue" for unwanted rats. They were some of the sweetest furbabies, far more friendlier than most any of the hamsters we'd had over the years, and super smart, too! I used to raise cavies as well, mostly...
Thanks for the warm welcome! Right now I've dual purpose registered Tennessee Fainting goats, English Orpingtons to British Standards, show quality Narragansett turkeys and quail. I've been working with the quail for five years and developed a line where the hen broods, hatches and rears her own...
I just popped over from BYC. :)
I hail from Ozark Highlands stock, generations of "preparedness" being ingrained into the very fabric of my soul. My passions include organic gardening/farming, wildcrafting and hedgerow harvesting, putting food by, seed saving of heirloom veg, and preserving...