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I always poo-poo the generator but I can see where it could be a godsend if you really needed it. We are the only house in our neighborhood with one (it came with the house when we bought it.) The thing that bugs me the most is that it is SO loud. Everyone within a mile radius immediately...

You might want to read The Long Winter (one of the Little House books, toward the middle of the series) where the train could not get through the pass and the family nearly starved and froze to death. Not that I didn't love all of other books. I just thought that that one had nice little dose...

Wow prariegirl! You are living my dream life. I know what you mean about the eggs, I've had to buy a couple dozen this winter. My chickens completely stopped laying early in November. The whole fruit/veggies thing is hard in the winter isn't it? We need to get better about it too :)

We had a mini test of our emergency preparedness. We had a snow and ice storm that gave us two feet of snow and about an inch of ice somewhere in the middle. Our power was out for a couple of days. I was fine on food. Haven't been back to the store yet (2 weeks later) even though all is...

Oh my goodness you are soooo lucky. Our two feet of snow and ice are nearly all melted though :weee

We carry our own medical insurance and have for the last seven years. It costs about $800 a month for a family of five, plus we have a $4000 deductible. It kills me to write that check each month. But it is good coverage, my son was in a very bad skiing accident last winter and I was...

We would have to make quite a move to make that happen. We would definite have to move out of state. Land is expensive here, you've got to have a job to pay for it. It sounds like a tempting idea on paper, but I'm really not sure it would be good for long term marital harmony (at least not in...

I'm not even going to post how much debt I've got. Suffice it to say I've got you all beat by a mile! I have rental properties which are all mortgaged. We are looking at ways to pay them off or down so that we get more income from rent. It just becomes a balancing act with tax liability...

Hey Dace! So glad you're back and made it through your move in one piece. Glad to hear that the house is working out well too.

That sounds like quite a bit to me. Mind you I know next to nothing about Farmers Markets specifically, but all of my other business experience tells me that it is better to do what you are good at, really well, and not spread yourself too thin trying to offer lots of products. Is there any...

:clap Happy Anniversary Farmer Chick! :bun Happy Birthday Sundance!!

OK ladies, now I am going to barf. Did you know, in Victorian times, women would intentionally infect themselves with tapeworms to lose weight? I am never going to click on this thread again. I'm hoping in a couple of weeks I'll forget all about this. Me and my worms are returning to our...

I don't have a dehydrator, and certainly can't afford one right now. But I've wondered if you could dehydrate some things in a convection oven at a low temperature. Has anyone tried this?

Whoa, you are way ahead of me! I just realized that my fig tree and artichoke patch are probably not going to survive the freeze we're in right now. So I'm deciding whether to replace them or go with something either more hardy or annual. Hmmmm. Let me think about that for a few days...

The most likely disaster in my area is a wild fire, so I believe I'd evacuate. We'd take all important doc's, photo's and pets. Maybe a few personal items and call it good. After reading about all the hurricanes and fires recently, I went out and got a separate carrier for each of our pets...

We trade energy for much more frivolous things than food storage. I'd give up TV a million years before I gave up a fridge. Probably he computer too. What else... water heater? I dunno. washer and dryer... maybe, but probably not. If electricity were not available, we would be ok though.

We have a generator, (which, for the record, I think is a complete waste) enough food to last well over a month, and a stream on our property. We probably have enough firewood to heat our house for a decade. I think we would make it as long as we had to. I have taken back country trips that...

We do without a fridge when backpacking. Obviously we're not eating ice cream or drinking cold milk but we do ok too. My fridge, according to the energy guide we got when we bought it, costs $54 a year to operate. That's not too much. Yes we could do without it. But think it helps you...

I don't know if it is a state law here, or maybe just market policy, but the two markets we go to are NO DOGS ALLOWED. And it is ENFORCED. I've seen people carrying dogs Paris Hilton style, and they've been escorted out! Makes sense to me but I'm sure not all agree.

I would think that the market would do something to discourage that kind of cheating as it really cheapens the whole experience for customers AND vendors. And FarmerChick- I hear ya on the dogs. NO WAY would I put up with that. You have to look out for your product. It's business plain and...