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The hual to date: two 750mL wine bottles three 375mL wine bottles three 750mL liquor bottles Mom ran off with one of the 375mL bottles, and we've used most of one already. But that's not bad I don't think! That means we've finished a little more than a gallon of syrup to date. I hope we've got...

I have noticed on my neighbor's tree, the sap runs REALLY well when the temps are between 38 & 45 with nights in the 20's. My mother's trees out on an ULTRA-windy hilltop with sand for soil run best when the temps are solidly in the 40's. I have nearly 30 gallons of sap from mom's trees cooked...

My Mother's trees turned out to be about as much as we can handle on the stovetop! She brings over nearly 20 gallons every three days!! To handle that, we have a 1 gallon iron pan and a 3 gallon aluminum pan on the stove. We even hauled out the rectangular turkey roaster pan for a minute...had...

My first small batch from the one neighbor tree! We are home most of the time right now. The stove runs constantly to zone heat...so we keep a couple pans on the stove going all the time. This first batch was done in stainless steel, and turned out a pretty light color. It has a very delicate...

So a few weeks ago a customer came into the store I work in. He was glowing over the 10 gallons of sap he harvested from his sugarbush, and bragging about the birch stand that he harvests too. That got my little gears turning, and I started driving the city streets looking for maple trees to...

Though I don't know about seeds in particular, I do know that Monsanto makes it a practice to "own"(patent) organisms that are NOT modified in any way. They "own" the rights to the gene that causes breast cancer. Because they "found" it and got the patent through. So now they OWN all rights to...

Awesome! What sort of babies are you brooding? I am itching to hatch some chicks....the other day it was all I could do to leave Tractor Supply without a box full of new babies...sigh.

It looks like a hot water heater thermostat....??.... I used one in an incubator that I made a couple years ago. I seem to recall there being a diagram on the packaging for wiring. You may be able to find a wiring diagram for it in a water heater how-to.

Agreed. I have always questioned how a product touts that it is safe because it is below the FDA legal limitations for a "safe" amount of chemical. What if an individual is consuming only products that are loaded with chemicals? Don't all those "safe limits" combined together become a compound...

Great Tip!! Those sort of non-perishable staples, that an individual rarely changes taste in are exactly the sort of thing that I like to stock up on at least a year in advance! What a deal!!

Fryers for $.77 per# is awesome!! I would love to find chicken at that price. I haven't had home raised chicken since I was in 4-H. I don't recall our chickens tasting very good, but I was a kid, and less appreciative of flavor. I have been considering doing some cornish game hens and a few...

One of the Meijer's supermarkets in town frequently has a "clearance" veggie rack. Whenever they have veggies that are past their prime, they bag them up and sell them at a discount. Sometimes it's a really good deal, sometimes it's just a few cents off a pound, but I pick up pennies off the...

I use old glass beer bottles for making my own beer and wine. So I do batches of 50-100 at a time. I soak them in the bath tub with super hot water and Oxyclean (actually I use a cheap off-brand). Any oqygen based cleanser should do. Many of the labels fall right off, some companies use...

Just sstarted a small garden center. Have deconstructed and reconstructed 4 houses that are 18' X 96'. In Michigan, we took a temperature reading in July...the mercury topped out over 140 degrees. Either put roll-ups on the sides, or take the plastic off!!! Plants stop growing in the mid 80's...

edjanuary39: My best recipe is: integrate new things into your life one thing at a time. I want to do everything at once, and buy a bunch of gadgets to do it all... what I end up with is a mess of needless consumption and a fair bit of wasted time and money. The things that seem to stick with...

We are a 2 (young) adult home. Our food expenses are $140-$200 per MONTH. Here are some simple things that I do in my climate & region to cut costs. -- Right outside the back door we have an EXTENSIVE herb garden. Here in Michigan I have fresh herbs 365 days a year, and I use them almost...

What an interesting thread....it makes me want to dig out the old newspaper clipping I have of my Great-Grandfather. In the 19-teens he lost part of his leg building the sugar beet factory in Sebewaing Michigan. My Grandmother used to recall helping him strap his wooden peg-leg on when she was a...

We zone heat our place here in Michigan. Last year we tried doing the elecrtic room heaters for a couple months.... After two successive $300+ electric bills (one ceramic heater in ONE room only of for 8 hours a day) I abandonned that method. This year I didn't even bother getting it out, DH...

Two weeks ago I did my first batch of all grain brewed beer. I was finally able to come up with an affordable lauter ton (cooler from Grandma's basement) and another big stainless steel pot to boil the wort in (3.5 galllon stainless milk bucket also from grandmas basement). It has now had a...

I wouldn't use table salt for wound cleaning, gargling and nasal cleaning pots are fine with table salt... Manufacturers add silica based anti-caking agents to salt as well as iodine. Epsom salt is actually a different compound than table salt with different properties. It is Magnesium sulfate...