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We have been busy adding to our back-to-basics store at http://www.cottagecraftworks.com If you haven't been by lately stop in and take a look. Appreciate your feedback and new product ideas that you would like to find. We have custom builders that can make just about anything out of wood...

Rules for Clotheslines -- You'll love this...... You have to be a certain age to appreciate this. Do you remember? Be sure to read to the end...the poem is so true. THE BASIC RULES FOR CLOTHESLINES: (If you don't...

This is a simple quick recipe from our Wooden Spoon Sampler Amish cookbook. Magic Apple Pie 1 egg 3/4 c. sugar 1/2 c. flour 1 t. baking powder pinch of salt 1 medium tart apple, peeled and diced 1/2 c. raisins Beat egg; add sugar, flour, baking powder and salt. Stir in apples and...

Keepers at Home Magazine began publications in 1993 with a mission to provide, nourish, and encourage stay at home mothers with informative articles and tips on maintaining a home, marriages, home budgets, raising children, providing wholesome foods, gardening, and other important information to...

Just A heads up to all horse owners. Liz Stevens Cottage Craft Works Outbreak of neurological disease caused by EHV-1 May 15th, 2011 URGENT RESPONSE INFORMATION AND RESOURCES Currently, there are numerous reports of equine herpesvirus myeloencephalopathy (EHM) affecting horses and farms in...

Beerman, a Co-op is a group of people who have joined together for the purpose of buying in bulk and distributing amongst the members. There are incorporated co-ops in the rural areas, for feed and supply as well as electric providers, then there is just small groups of people with a common...

Thanks everyone for the leads, I will check them out, keep me posted if you find any new ones, I'm getting ready to tour the Amish communities on a new product tour and going to see what they have available. I will let you all know if I find anything. We are going to Indiana, Ohio, and...

Good idea, with the investment savings and CDs under 1.5% it is good to look at other alternative ways to prepare for retirement.

Does anyone have a good supplier or grains ready to be milled into flour?

Sorry my internet blinked and I didn't realize this posted twice, I can't find how to delete the second post, does anyone know? Edit just take you back to the screen to edit only.

Ideas and products to move towards a more self-sufficient lifestyle If you are thinking or planning on moving toward a simpler lifestyle, living self-sufficient doesnt mean you have to escape to the hills to homestead in a log cabin without electricity or indoor plumbing. Even city dwellers...

Sorry, Big Brown Horse I didn't realize I couldn't post to each message. No we don't have a store front as yet, we do have a retail outlet in a store just for our CCW Hunting and Game Calls. We do build some of our products here in our own shop, mostly we build prototypes and then have an...

Sugar Creek area, unless you know of some products we might be interested in looking at. We are going over in to Lancaster County PA, we already work with one Amish gentleman from that area, haven't been able to spend much time there.

If you not have dropped by my site lately we have added several new garden tools to our back-to-basics American Heritage Series. We now carry a reproduction of the famous Planet Junior push plows, with all the attachments. We also have the new version of the GrainMaker grain Mill including the...

We used the T-14 Purple Martin Plan book that we carry on our site and built two winch style martin houses with the pull out trays. Our martins began coming in to Texas in late Feb. and the main group arrived just after the 1st of March. We can see now why the T-14 design is so popular for the...

Thanks, you might be surprised how many, and who are still using these products to live off grid, they are not all Amish either, we love this type of stuff sometimes I think we were born way to late. If it wasn't for the A/C we would just about be back there now.

I now carry metal replacement parts for the older model Coleman Gasoline and Kerosene Lanterns manufactured in the 1950s and forward. Burner Caps, Burner Tubes, brass hand pumps, filler caps, ventilator bracket and so forth. Also I have the filler cap for the original Coleman Gasoline Iron...

We are dealers for the Happy Valley and Jaffrey apple cider, wine and fruit presses. We can get you parts for these, or have kits with all the metal parts and instructions to build your own press, including the apple grinder. These kits can build a single or double tub press. Just contact me...

I now have parts available and parts breakdown for the Even Heat Butane and Gasoline Clothes Irons, yes they are still made in the USA and I carry them new. Just contact me if you need parts, or factory service. Liz

Crock Pot Apple Butter Here is a very simple recipe to make old fashioned Apple Butter. Cook 5 lbs of apples quartered and peeled in water until they can be mashed into a pulp Add 1-1/2 cups of apple cider vinegar, then if needed add water until you achieve 7 cups of pulp. Add 3 cups of...