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Home Grown Chicken Stock

October 11, 2012 in Chickens, Gardening For Food, Home Made, Main Courses, Poultry, Raising Livestock, Recipes, Self Sufficiency, slide show recipes, slide show self sufficient, Vegetable Gardening by Cathy

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I was was very happy to realize that my home made chicken stock this year was COMPLETELY home GROWN!! Onions from my Garden…..check!  Carrots from my garden….check!  Garlic from my garden….check!  Summer Savory dried from my garden….check! Oregano dried from my garden….check!!! Water from my well…..check!  My home grown chickens – the bones, legs and [...]

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Goofy Faces in the Purple Star Peppers!

August 31, 2012 in Gardening For Food, Self Sufficiency, Vegetable Gardening by Cathy

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I love growing different, funny or cool things!!! Last year I grew Purple Star Peppers.  You can imagine my surprise when I went to cut them….  I found this inside!!!!!   A FACE! Complete with eyes, eye brows, nose, mouth, hair, beard AND horns. Tee hee heeeee! :) Almost every pepper had a goofy face [...]

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Freezing Tomatoes Straight From the Vine

August 23, 2012 in Gardening For Food, Self Sufficiency, slide show self sufficient, Vegetable Gardening by Cathy

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Last year I was so excited to discover that I could freeze tomatoes straight from the vine!!  When the harvest comes in sometimes we don’t have time to deal with the mountain of tomatoes at that exact moment AND sometimes they don’t ripen all at the same time. Here is a fast and easy way [...]

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How to Dry Cherry Tomatoes!

August 22, 2012 in Appetizers, Drying, Gardening For Food, Home Made, Just Talking, Recipes, Self Sufficiency, slide show recipes, slide show self sufficient, Vegetable Gardening by Cathy

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I just discovered what I can do with all of my TONS of cherry tomatoes! DRY THEM! Yes it’s true.  I just discovered a new favourite snack.  They are delicious!!! They are really good just out of the oven and my mother and I just sat there stuffing our faces and giggling like we just [...]

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How To Save Tomato Seeds

August 18, 2012 in Gardening For Food, Self Sufficiency, slide show self sufficient, Vegetable Gardening by Cathy

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Saving Tomato Seeds is easy peasy tomato SQUEEZY!! :)  Tomato seeds are so easy to save!  MOST tomato plants don’t cross pollinate so you are sure to get a plant that is exactly as the parent plant.  Just remember that you don’t want to use seeds from the tomatoes you buy at grocery stores as these [...]

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How To Grow Potatoes!!

May 24, 2012 in Gardening For Food, Just Talking, Self Sufficiency, slide show self sufficient, Vegetable Gardening by Cathy

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 Growing potatoes is a very FUN, EASY and REWARDING crop to grow! If you have never grown anything before, potatoes are the best place to start!  They require little care, multiply like crazy and they provide a wonderful treasure hunt come Autumn. Don’t worry about manure or fertilizers.  In fact,  adding manure can have negative [...]

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Growing COOL Things

January 7, 2012 in Gardening For Food, Just Talking, Self Sufficiency, slide show self sufficient, Vegetable Gardening by Cathy

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I have been a fan of Jamie Oliver for some time now.  Aside from his obvious talent as a down to earth chef and tv personality he has inspired millions to pay attention to the nutritional abuse that is happening in schools across Europe and North America.  I am in awe of his determination, his humanity, his [...]

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How to Build a Composter

April 3, 2011 in Gardening For Food, Self Sufficiency, Vegetable Gardening by Cathy

We decided to build ourselves a homemade composter.  Since this year we are growing a market garden we needed a BIG composter.  One that can handle the tractor.  We have lots of chickens and lots of poop around here so the composter has to be as wide as the tractor bucket. We started off by pounding 6 – 2×4′s [...]

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Grow Your Own Food!

July 27, 2010 in Gardening For Food, Self Sufficiency, Vegetable Gardening by Cathy

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I learned to grow my own food from my parents.  Ever since I can remember we’ve always had a vegetable garden and the pictures I’ve taken here remind me of my time as a child.  The time I would spend on a lazy summer day just exploring.  It taught me to appreciate nature, to enjoy the wonder of it [...]

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How To Get Rid Of Weeds

July 14, 2010 in Gardening For Food, Self Sufficiency, Vegetable Gardening by Cathy

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Kinda Pretty Aren’t They? How do I get rid of weeds you ask? The first thing you wanna do is swear at them….ALOT. I’m sure my neighbours have heard a few choice words! Basically the rule of thumb, to getting rid of weeds, is to start early in the season.  Take a few minutes EVERY [...]

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