BarredBuff's Homesteading Shenanigans

[TanksHill]

Your Granny sure seems to know what she wants. It's a shame about the apple orchard but if it's not producing I understand.

I can't wait to see pictures.

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[Wannabefree]

James, stack that apple wood for smoking some game buddy! It's a great smoking wood

 

[FarmerJamie]

Wait, they let you off of school BEFORE it snowed???

When I was in school they only let us out of school if they couldn't get snow chains on the buses or if we had ice.

I know! Super retarded! We got off school if my rooster doesnt crow and thats not a lie.

Well its time to update I guess. Me and Granny have visited a lot today. We talked mainly about Revelations and then we talked Self Sufficiency.
On the SelfSufficiency aspect she wants to:

*Sow Half the garden in corn for my animals.
*Destroy the super old apple orchard who's apples rots off each summer before they are ripe.
*She wants to put the orchard in raised beds for onions, cabbage, lettuce, cucumbers, and pumpkins. SO that the big garden has room for more sweet corn, more potatoes, more sweet potatoes, more field corn, more beans, more tomatoes. We may even do peppers in the raised beds who knows.
*She also wants me to work on my chicken flock a little more. She wants more self sufficient and large birds.

So I guess I have my work cut out for me!!

I know someone who is going to be tired everynight!
Could you use/sell the wood for smoking meat, rather than just making a workpile?

 

[BarredBuff]

Tell me about it!! Im gonna use the small, tender branches as rabbit food. Then I guess I could smoke meat with the bigger pieces.....

 

[FarmerJamie]

Wannabee and I posted within 1 minute of each other with the same advice.
We gotcha ya covered, bud.

 

[kcsunshine]

BarredBuff, you are so fortunate to have a Granny who thinks as you do about SS. Cherish what you have, and learn from those who know - you already have more skills that most older folks.

My Mamaw was such a strong Christian woman who raised chickens, turkeys, cows, and could grow anything. She saved her seeds every year, cooked all her meals from scratch every day, even went out in the woods and chopped her firewood. She had a big iron pot in the back yard she used for heating water to wash clothes (Papaw didn't believe in having a bathroom in the house and she didn't have running water in her kitchen. (My uncles built her a bathroom, my dad dug her a well, and they piped water into the house for her after Papaw died). My Papaw passed away in 1968, just 1 week after my DD was born, and my Mamaw lived alone until her passing in 1991. She would have been 91 years old on her birthday. I still miss her and now wish I had paid more attention to the things she did and the way she lived. That woman could bake biscuits that would float off your plate - in a wood stove.

 

[savingdogs]

KC Sunshine I have a similar Grandma in my life. I wonder how many of us SS-ers have one. She was one of my favorite relatives and would be a good person for me to have around for advice right now. Mine was a bit more colorful than both of yours, but had the same independent, can-do attitude and wasn't afraid of hard work.

 

[Henrietta23]

I wish now I could have my Grandma back to get to know as an adult. She would have so much to teach me and I could have shared so much about her diabetes!

 

[FarmerJamie]

I wonder if someday our kids' kids will talk about us like that?

 

[savingdogs]

They probably won't be talking, they will be texting.