Recent content by freemotion

I grow most of my cooking and flavoring herbs and I wash everything before drying, freezing, fermenting, or making extracts, etc. I pick into a five gallon pail and run water from the hose into it with a drop of Dawn to break the water tension and let it soak to get the bugs out before bringing...

Fermented cucumber salsa. Wifezilla told me about it last year and it is WONDERFUL. Peel and seed, dice the flesh and proceed with your favorite salsa recipe, only use cukes instead of tomatoes. It is really good. I ferment it.

Strawberries from the garden layered with chevre from the goats, sweetened lightly with raw, local wildflower honey and a bit of homemade vanilla extract. :drool

Thanks a lot, WZ, I thought my seed purchasing was finished for this year..... :tongue

Everyone on BC's mailing list who lives in the CT area and surrounding states will get a Comstock & Ferre catalog...this is what they told me when I stopped in at Comstock. The lady I always seem to deal with is very nice and very knowledgeable! I can't seem to get back there during business...

Ostrich fern Lamium hydrangea Bleeding heart phlox echinacea sedum Hostas come in so many colors and sizes, it is amazing. You can get them with leaves in various shades of yellow and blue as well as every shade of green and variegated.

Giving chickens free access to the pile helps, too.

Herbicides, not necessarily pesticides. Same difference in this venue as both are poisonous. There are many, many substances that are safe in their natural form and in minute amounts but that become very dangerous in forms that are not naturally occurring and in larger amounts than our bodies...

:rolleyes: Ever read an article in Mother Earth News? My big concern about modern veggies is the nutritional profile is VERY different from the older versions of the same type of plant. You can eat a very "good" diet with lots of veggies and still be very deficient in important nutrients...

We also roast them with other veggies. I toss them with chicken fat that has herbs mixed in it (garlic, onion, oregano, basil, pepper, salt). We've tried other fats including olive oil, and chicken fat is by far the best! Bacon fat is good, too. Rarely a week goes by when we don't have...

The noises and smells of my animals will not harm anyone else's animals. Now if my male goat escapes and breeds my neighbor's goats, now that is something I should take responsibility for and pay for the damages and make changes to make sure it never happens again. Or my neighbor should be...

Hey, Pat, you get quoted, too! Do you feel special now? :P

Genetically Modified Organism. It usually means the dna of plant material has been modified so that the plant can survive being doused liberally in very toxic, carcinogenic Round-Up herbicide. There is some evidence that GMO foods are very bad for you. The companies who make them (such as...

This is frightening: "Unopened ultrapasteurized milk in sterile (aseptic) packaging can last several months unrefrigerated..." This is why my milk comes from my goats! Raw, whole, and healthy.

I made a big pot of chicken soup on Wed that we are still eating from! Made a pot pie with some yesterday...yum! I used our own chickens, and from our gardens, scallions, carrots, parsley, rosemary, and homemade sea salt. Plus a few store bought ingredients....black pepper, rutabaga...