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I would buy bunches and stick it in the freezer. Homemade tamales, my word. I got the Rick Bayless book Mexico One Plate at a Time for Christmas last year. Once you get the directions understood, they are easy and fun and delicious. Great book. No good lard found in my area yet.

My all time favorite cheap dinner is hamburger gravy, must be flavored with the juice from a can of green beans. Serve those as a side along with mashed potatoes to pour the gravy over. The topper is apple cider vinegar with chopped raw onion, salt and pepper. My dad's mother's recipe, they are...

I get the bulk of my seeds from Pine Tree seeds. Their prices generally beat out most of the competition. For special seeds I go to Seeds of Change. But I personally spend hours pouring over seed catalogs and often find new recipes or uses for plants I already grow.

Van Morrison, the Eagles, Sheryl Crow. In a mood Kid Rock

Thanks all, I used stoneyfield organic. It was pretty pricey so thinking of making my own yogurt next. What kind of milk works best for you? Does it have to be whole milk? How many use organic milk or does this defeat the price factor of making your own?

I have my yogurt draining for the whey. What is your favorite way to flavor the yocheese. First time so I need ideas.

If I had to pick one it would be buckwheat. Grows fast, chickens will eat at any stage, great cover crop.

The lily pics are awesome. Left my beautiful lillies up north when I moved one year ago, they are on my new garden order, I love lillies.

I had one BA that looked like she stuck her head in the water bucket, neck and head were so sparce of feathers. All are under a year old. Don't know if it is weather related but most of my GLW girls are loosing feathers in the head and neck areas. They look so cold. Am supplementing with...

This year I raised as much as I could for the chickens. I moved to 3 acres in January and until August didn't have a tiller. I scraped out an area for oats (per Carla Emory instructions). I planted sunflowers which wild birds got most of, grew millet from birdseed bag. Planted corn for seed for...

Beef hearts. All I can think of when hearing that is of a long cold winter in Mass. with DD deadbeat dad. We were so poor I applied for the government food boxes. I made $1 a week too much to qualify. So I would go to the neighbors and relatives asking if there was anything in the box they...

Go to Center for Food Safety. Just watched Food Inc. They can't even say the M word, Now watch your alfalfa folks, they are on a roll again.

I now have bacon envy. Hater of pigs, don't be a hater.

Sage tea gargle. I love sage so generally add crushed garlic too and sip through out the day. My mother swore by kepping a clove of raw garlic in her mouth and peircing with her teeth through the day. Not good if you have to go among people but I loved my garliccy Mama.

Where's the beans?

I think I will have to go with the ugly orange plastic water bottles that leaked in my bed when I was a kid. Iwill keep my rice buddy until I find out if it(wipes tears away) is the cause of a mutitude of problems. Thanks guys, it really is my friend.

Sell your house first. Real estate is hard to move right now. Do your research well. You will probably get a bargain on your new property. Research the area you like for soil info, growing season. Get info from the local extension of Ag. Just some things I wish I had thought out more carefully...

My truck drivin DH gave me mine. If he called while I was out in the garden he'd say " I figured you were weaseling around in the garden" It became a joke nickname, not very flattering as in hey Weasel you got a phone call. Now everything I make is a "Garden Weasel" product. My Garden Weasel hot...

After I read numerous articles on the changes of protein forms (no scientist here) one particular fact freaked me out enough to test it. Supposedly a seed can't sprout with microwave water. Tested it out with one flat microwaved water and one flat tap water. Same seeds about a dozen in each...

Every year lately I have been doing a garden seed inventory on New Years Eve ( I know, how fun). I write down all the seed packets I have, how much is in them and how old they are. Only then do I actually seriously go through the seed catalogs I have been drooling over as they arrive. New years...