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Lowe's sells bird netting pretty reasonable 14'x14' $6 , 7'x100' $15 (i used that to top off one of my runs, cut in half zip tied together 14x50) Birds have left our grapes and blueberries alone but my MIL uses it over her blueberries. I'm going to use it over our raised strawberry beds this...

Too alkaline? us too, we add acid to our blueberry bushes, thriving now. Wild bushes do just fine though?....? Doesn't take sugar maples to make maple syrup, sugar maples you need less sap per gallon but not a huge difference, tapping other maple just takes more sap per gallon of syrup, tastes...

Ever get that dark buckwheat honey? Wasn't bad but not my fav, kinda tasted like grape nut cereal, which I like just odd flavor for honey IMHO. I prefer regular ole honey.

We just make enough for us, takes a lot of sap and a lot of boiling, time consuming and you have to keep on top of it when it gets warmer. Warm weather you can't just store it to boil when you have time, sours quick. I haven't bothered the last few yrs but we usually get a couple gallons. I...

Still to early to start anything here, though I have some sweet potatoes going in the window. 40s-50s during the day, teens at night. Perfect weather for tapping Maple trees, did some today and the saps a drippin :-D

Chickens and rabbits, what I grew up on besides free range organic venison chickens free range and eat about anything, rabbits...well they reproduce VERY well and eat grass,alfalfa, clover, FREE! for much of the yr. Cost, input, time, loss, upkeep, have to be the most economical way to put...

Since we're on the toilet subject somehow.... couple funny/ not so funny/ funny if you were there stories. Bunch of us at a friends house ready for a 'night on the town', cab picking us up of course, very rural here (no pizza places will even deliver) but the owner of the small cab company in a...

We go to Maines a couple times a yr, I can't believe I never thought to look there. We usually just go through the food isles. I'll have to look next time or ask my father-in-law next time he goes. My in-laws have a small, (not really small, big wood fired brick oven, they just don't do as much...

Hay! Saw this, this morn had to take a pic, cool 'truck'! Bad rd and it was a rockin, lost some bales. I may or may not have picked one out of the rd on the way back through :hide

Searched for gallon glass jars after putting away eight gallons of sauerkraut (and it turned out yummy!!) with only one gallon jar and two tall half gallon ones and a bunch of quarts.....still have a few gallon ones with pickles in them. Need more gallon jars, most of mine are hand me downs. Saw...

Good! cause they are not good for you, Lol! When I was a kid we were so poor we couldn't even afford ramen noodles, (or they just never bought them) few times we did have them it was a treat, no kidding, mom would cook up a big pot of shrimp ramen and put a little can of baby shrimp in it, WOW...

Lol! When I moved out on my own I ate cheap, ramen noodles were 10 for a dollar, hamburg was .99cents a pound and Milwaukee's Best beer, $3.99 12pk... :-D Seriously though, cabbage, red and green super good for you, each has different benefits on vitamins. Cooked or raw, many ways to...

The small hawks is what I usually have 'issues' with. Never even had a red tail hawk bother my birds.

Bald eagle's seem more interested in road kill and dead stuff when they ain't fishing. Pretty buzzards :-D I've never had them go after my birds. 'Alaskan' in Alaska had one go after her moscovy's, her big male actually fought it off, was injured but lived. They are HUGE though. Our oldest DD...

Any kind if insurance for something like that? I Love Layers?

Wow, crappy, so sorry for your loss.

Sorta funny electrical episode today. DW called me at work upset. Half the electric in the house quit. She found the tripped breaker and it turned back on but she shut it back off afraid something was wrong. We've delt with electrical issues before other places we've lived so I was not looking...

In '94 I went from upstate NY where early summer had been 50s and rainy to getting off a plane in St Louis MO, felt like I walked into a microwave. Then in Ft Leonard Wood it was so hot and humid it would rain sometimes with no clouds, great big raindrops. ..

Back to the 'tiny houses', you should check out Green Fire Farms Facebook page and see what the did with a couple smallish storage containers. Pretty neat, three stories high with a covered screened in porch/deck up top. Overlooking all their coops.

I tend to grow bush beans and cucumbers so no need to trellis. Though I'll admit pole beans outproduce bush, and cukes on a trellis take up less room. I used a fifty foot welded wire fence for yrs for peas, place fence on the side the sun so they grow into it. Put it on the other side first yr...