Dixie Chicks

[perchie.girl]

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online and through Walmart.

Amazon for one but you can buy them at several canning stores on line.

http://www.walmart.com/search/?query=heratige mason jars

colored mason jars on Amazon

ball website
http://www.freshpreserving.com/products/canning-jars

my head is spinning but they are out there

I found a site that sellls mason jars called ECO american made but what interests me is they have technical drawings for them >>>> I live for technical drawings I am designing a cabinet for storage

deb

deb

 

[Amberjem]

Oh... We are getting a big one, in milk, first week in march, with a weather companion, that we will eat once he is grown.

In the summer we are getting two mini Saanens which better grow up to be the milk factories that their reputation promisses, since they will be babies when we get them, and I will have to shell out feed for over a year before I get any return.

Luckily, I don't have to lift a finger... Just direct, and bleed money.

we will need TONS of pictures and milking pictures too!

Yeh, like decades ago...did like ten gallons in the fall and canned it all up. Was real easy and I got to use some heirloom items kickin' round here from family...Rick's slaw cutter, his ginormous crock...yeh...why do you ask??? 'Cause I likely don't remember all I did past it turned out fab and I need to grow up enough to do it again (like all things homegrown, it is far better than grocery)...jest ordered up two organic cabbages that might work out swell...Early Jersey Wakefield & Golden Acre.

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I buy mine now, in glass jars, had some two days ago in fact...pork ribs and topped with crout. Good recipe when you're working outside and you don't want to be bothered about someone having to stand over a stove. Toss in some taters and you got a meal fit for

You can even throw them pork ribs in frozen if you start it up early enough in the day.


Baked in oven, browned and major delish...

Remember to come inside and turn it once...​

Mighten hafta eat the leftovers but I think Rick mighten know I had LUNCH...and a real good one.

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Leftovers planned up already tonight but heck, it's beef pot roast in the crock from yesterday. There'd be plenty....yeh, sour breath at mere 10 a.m. ... dunno the dogs won't mind...what the hay, eh!

Bin up since 04:30...it's technically lunch time...somewhere's eh.

Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada

did you see the pictures I posted for you as promised?

I use Mason jars to store my sourdough bread starter in the frig. Also use them to store noodles, homegrown popcorn, beans, sugar, flour, just about anything. I just bought some beautiful purple Mason jars

me tooo!

Where can i find these elusive purple mason jars?

Brick and Mortar

walmart I got them half off

online and through Walmart.

Amazon for one but you can buy them at several canning stores on line.

http://www.walmart.com/search/?query=heratige mason jars

colored mason jars on Amazon

ball website
http://www.freshpreserving.com/products/canning-jars

my head is spinning but they are out there

I found a site that sellls mason jars called ECO american made but what interests me is they have technical drawings for them >>>> I live for technical drawings I am designing a cabinet for storage

deb

deb

oh sounds interesting

 

[vehve]

@1kluckychik Just a tiny Brinsea Mini Eco, fits 9 eggs. But that's more than enough for us, since we don't have space for too many birdies.

 

[Outpost JWB]

Wait. You grow your own popcorn?

Super easy, fun, and it lasts a long time.....never had to throw any out due to bugs or anything. We've tried growing sweet corn &. Field corn, but the sweet corn got ate by raccoons, the field corn blew over in strong winds. Tried standing them back up, growing corn around here on a small scale is just a pain. I don't mess with it anymore. I just buy it at the farmer's market. Popcorn stalks are about 1/2 the height of regular corn. We grow colored popcorn so I use it for decorations for Halloween and Thanksgiving. We have an air popper. The chickens LOVE it when we pop up a big bowl for them.....
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Sounds like movie night back at the coop.. PM me if you'd like some seed

Got my Mason jars at Walmart. I thought I could use them for decoration in new bathroom once we get it done, because the color doesn't match any of my decor. I also thought of making lights out of them. I recently found some red ones at a local dollar store. They appear to be red coated and are not Mason jars. Just glass jars that say China on the bottom. They also have a wire hanger attached. I'll see if I can get pics today after work. These will go on the back porch where the color scheme is red. Have a good day everyone!

 

[vehve]

Corn would be interesting to grow, but it's a bit difficult in our climate. Back in the day when Finland was good buddies with the Soviets there were several programs experimenting with corn, they liked it a lot. But I think only about 400 hectares of corn is grown over here, that's about 1000 acres, so basically nothing.

 

[Beer can]

Corn would be interesting to grow, but it's a bit difficult in our climate. Back in the day when Finland was good buddies with the Soviets there were several programs experimenting with corn, they liked it a lot. But I think only about 400 hectares of corn is grown over here, that's about 1000 acres, so basically nothing.

Russia failed big time attempting corn way back when Nikita Khrushchev was fascinated with it. Somehow got sidetracked reading about the Soviet space programs a few months ago and ended up reading about Russian corn, Lol.
I read they are a leading exporter of corn now, and have banned GMO's.

Yeah, 1,000 acres, not much. I could about guarantee there's that much grown in our little town every yr. Just the dairy farm down the road from me must grow 300-500 acres for silage. 80 acres behind my house.

 

[vehve]

Yup, we use other grains and grasses for silage. And we produce the best milk in the world with it! I might be a bit biased though. By the way, are Valio products available in the States? They have a pretty huge arsenal of lactose free products, at least those might be available over there.

 

[Beer can]

Huh, @vehve I've never looked for it before but I bet it is in our local stores, the bigger ones anyway.
Valio USA is based in New Jersey, branded name 'Real Goodness' lactose free milk made in Syracuse, NY (about 90 miles from me) through a partnership with Byrne Dairy, one of the most popular milk here in NY.
Looks like it's sold in most north east states, quart is $2.59 and $4.99 for a gallon. Not bad here for a specialty milk.
Out of NJ Valio also markets Finlandia cheese and butter.

 

[CanuckBock]

Heel low:

Wait. You grow your own popcorn?

Yeh, many of us do...and YOU don't????

Where you bin livin' Mun...under a ROCK?

This is my list for corn (Zea mays) kernels I'm gonna be a planting this year...days to maturity range from an outlandish 95 days (why I start corn inside...against all the ROOLES...always against the rules with moi...meant to be bent, not broken but bent really good...) to a mere 63 days...yeh, you read that right...SIXTY THREE DAYS to maturity!:

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Yeh...get growin' and get poppin'...I am sure that corn would grow way easier for you than it does up here. I have to start the kernels in their own individual peat pots...and grow it out till like the first of June and pray it dunna get hit with golfball and bigger sized hail AND snow...snow in dang August up here in the Great White North...but if'n I dance really silly then the gods that be will ensure no hail and no snow...yeh, we get frozen water here all year...then I be getting to harvest up the popcorn corn, flour corn, milliing corn (corn meal0, and the bestest...SWEET CORN on the cob plucked alive and fresh (mid afternoon, when the dew has been burnt off by the sunshine and the kernels are at their sweetest time of the day) and on to the BQ in the Man Porch for scoffing down...yeh...sweet sweet corn at home sweet home, eh.

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If'n I grow corn and have since I lived on the WEsT Coast...so too should everyone grow their own not GMO AND not Hybrid (try finding THOSE in the grocery veg aisles!), chicken candy CORNs!

did you see the pictures I posted for you as promised?

Of course I did...waiting on pin needles and all...I saw the hands that still appreciate the need to get dirt on them...the hands that feed the family the BESTest produce in the world...I saw, I loved...I am so gonna steal yer plans of using them cinder blocks...got some awesome incentive to have my Hero bring in a lift of cinders on the Boo one ton...and get making me some more raised beds...but without pressure treated timbers...nice cinder blocks he can bring me a bucket of gravel in the tractor to fill with...yeh. Thinking I will plant the new coming raspberry canes in a nice cinder blocked enclosure...got me some landscape fabric just screaming to line it, get the cinders on, filled, then dirt it up...yeh...I have visions from your pickies...VISIONS of jest the right things that could work out real fine here. I said it before on the cinder block/raised bed concept and I'll say it again..."Thank you on that, eh!"

I made sure to ovationed ya...:
CanuckBock

"Yah...thank you!"

You know what I saw the other day that made wince (and I knew you would too)...plant markers...wait for it...plant markers made from...ready to shudder....made from pressure treated wood. Oh my good gack!

So we break the ties that bind us to an early grave in sickness by growing our own FOODS and going non-GMO, non-Hybrid (so we can save our own seeds and be self sufficient more and more), non-chemical fertilized (oh the chook poop...and turkey, duck, goose, pheasant, swan, and cheeky Ruddies...oh how they contribute...give and give and give us again!)...5#!7 happens, so make COMPOST outta the bounty!

) well after we go thru all that extra good for us, good for the Earth, good for everything on the planet...we are gonna stick chemically treated wood products right in amongst our healthy choices of growing our own fruits and veg...good gack indeedy!

Cancers...that just don't happen because we BREATHE AIR...sometimes it is the choices we can make NOT to expose ourselves to over the top carcinogenics...

Feb 18, 2016​

Hauled the two thing-mah-jiggers out to the greenhouse and put together 16 seedling starter trays yesterday afternoon.

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While the dawgs played...I played!

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Well OK...truth be known!

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I tend to play alot nicer than the puppies ever do...

Lacy Jill scores ONE...​

But so long as no single girl is winning every single squirmish...I guess they are playing...

Emmy Lou scores ONE...​

Puppy Lump = NO winners...score still at 1 : 1??

Puppers are playing and I can keep playing in the greenhouse - popping a look see outside every few moments to make sure nobody is going too over board.

Stash of trays...fits up real nice and tidy like

I been hording greenhouse pots and trays for over 40 years (yeh, I know...yell DINOsaurus and be done with it already would yah...40+ years of hoarding leaves you quite a stash...an organized one tho! Even moved from the WEsT Coast with my stash well seeded, eh). Me so ever proud that firing up the greenhouse this season is gonna be way economical. I see my seedling starter trays were regular priced at $4.99 and I bought those ones off season for $2.99 and there's eight of those per mini greenhouse...$25 bucks with taxes to fill one...I looked in town and now those exact same packaged up trays, lid, bottoms, inserts are $6.99...Holy Hannah, eh. That be $58.71...so double yer expenses to buy one mini and eight seedling starter trays on inserts and ten bucks fer the seedling sterilized but organic mix...that's $130 to begin one seedling setup. Yeh, me happy to have a greenhouse/planting stash...

So far, so good...only bought two seedling starter mediums and 3 x 32 peat pots -
under twenty bucks if you ignore the oodles of seeds I got ordered

So thar you be woman...Bwah ha ha...

Jem...now yer one set of grown it up good stuff pickies behind me now...did I just say behind...yeh, I guess I jest typed that...<<wiggle wiggle but never TWEAK er TWERK IT>> Get yer behind behind mine..."Who's got a bigger butt, bigger butt...BIG BUTT?" I do, I do...I DO...I had more time to earn mine so my butt is always gonna be BIGGER than You's furEVER and EVER!"

Rick's haulin' my sorry butt to the city this morn to peruse which place has the best mini-greenhouse on sale...I got to get me another one and the one I saw at the LOCO village/town was $59.99 and sans the castors my one for $39.99 back in the day has...bought back in the daze when dino's walked the planet and I was gardening in the greenhouse...dang, I am starting to feel older than dirt, eh.

Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada

 

[Beer can]

@CanuckBock golden bantam is my go to corn, usually all I grow.
I love sandhills descriptions on some of their corn varieties 'well loved by mice, raccoons, supply is limited'...Lol!