Completely off topic, but I can't help myself; 7961, you have NO idea how many times I've tried to brush your avatar off my screen... :lol
Me, too !!!!
Me, too !!!!
My 2 cents on the word homesteading and what it means to many. I belong to a homesteading forum where many do live much more off the land than us. Some even live off the grid but that is for another topic. Most of todays homesteading is trying to get back to nature and away from mass production. This comes down to cooking from scratch as much as possible i.e. not using package products like soup in a can but instead making your own. In many cases it is growing you own produce in a garden for other buying from a farmers market what they do not grow. Getting back into canning and freezing quantaties instead of enough just for a week or 2.
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Though we don't live off the grid, I've been reading much about it. Or to at least put solar lighting into the barns. I learned how to cook and can from my mother; I teach my 2 boys how to cook and bake. WE cook 99% from scratch. Hence a kitchen sink aways full and a very busy dishwasher. I planted peach trees long ago; the wild blackberries are a quick snack in the summer; I teach the boys how to ID different plants: what is safe to eat what is not.We raise our own sheep. They (he boys) love tomatos if they can pick them off the vine! THis year I'm planning to expand our gardern. I have said this for 2 years now . . . hopefully this is the year! Our 2 freezers are usually full of meat and purchased foods. I would like to change that to our own farmed grown vegetables. When we grow winter squash, I am always amazed how well it lasts into winter when stored in our basement. I will continue to move toward producing more of our own, hence the chickens and turkeys this year. ANd show my boys how to care for animals, grow vegies, etc and cook. It's time we spend together . . and rarely have the time or money to spend at the mall, or the movies. We love being at home.
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Though we don't live off the grid, I've been reading much about it. Or to at least put solar lighting into the barns. I learned how to cook and can from my mother; I teach my 2 boys how to cook and bake. WE cook 99% from scratch. Hence a kitchen sink aways full and a very busy dishwasher. I planted peach trees long ago; the wild blackberries are a quick snack in the summer; I teach the boys how to ID different plants: what is safe to eat what is not.We raise our own sheep. They (he boys) love tomatos if they can pick them off the vine! THis year I'm planning to expand our gardern. I have said this for 2 years now . . . hopefully this is the year! Our 2 freezers are usually full of meat and purchased foods. I would like to change that to our own farmed grown vegetables. When we grow winter squash, I am always amazed how well it lasts into winter when stored in our basement. I will continue to move toward producing more of our own, hence the chickens and turkeys this year. ANd show my boys how to care for animals, grow vegies, etc and cook. It's time we spend together . . and rarely have the time or money to spend at the mall, or the movies. We love being at home.
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