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Long story short a piglet wandered into my yard about a month and a half ago. Nobody claimed him so he is ours now. My plan is to use him to roto-till and fertilize my new 10 X 20 garden plot for next year's garden. Oh boy, is he a great roto-tiller!!! Here is a cute photo of him and some of...

Just checkin in. I've been up to my ears in sufficient self trying to learn how to make a straw built coop for the girls. :P I havn't been over here in a while and I just wanted to say HI! :D :mow <--I'm so glad this guy never makes it to the flower!

It is wild mushroom season in the Pacific North West. If you have any good mushroom recipes, please share! :)

I'm ready to eat these puppies! They have all of these nooks and crannys full of pete and soil. Is there a good way to get them clean without soaking them or damaging them? (I don't have any special tools like mushroom cleaners etc, just regular old kitchen utencils.) (BTW, they are big, but...

I have a back pasture full of fist sized chanterelle mushrooms that I came across looking for firewood this afternoon. I picked 4 of them hastily and then thought there might be a certain way to pick them so more mushrooms will return/spore. (Also, since I am not from mushroom country someone...

I don't have one to share, sorry. :/ That is why I started this thread. :D

My favorite drink (other than a straight up dirty martini :D): BLOODY MARY WITH FRESH TOMATO 1. TAKE ONE VERY LARGE VINE RIPENED TOMATO; CUT IT INTO ROUGH CHUNKS. (We should all have some of these by now.) 2. PLACE THE CHUNKS IN A GLASS WITH THREE TBSP OF ABSOLUTE PEPPER VODKA. 3. MASH THE...

This weekend at a market day and plant sale, I had the most delicious sandwich that was sprinkled with coarse"lavender salt". The salt was actually light purple in color. The sandwich was made of toasted sourdough, smoked salmon, a cream cheese smear and lavender salt sprinkled on top. :drool...

I need a recipe to make sauerkraut. Any ideas? I am interested in making and eating in small batches so I don't have to can it...for the yummy probiotics and all. Can I use a red cabbage? Thanks!!

I just pulled up my first radishes, yea for me!! The radishes are huge, I may have waited too long. The greens are incredible! I was wondering if they are edible? I always fed them to my tortoise when I got them from the market. I have a wonderful big bunch here on my counter and would like...

I just read that you can fry them up and eat them. Does anyone have any recipies on how to do this? Any other recipies? I know you can eat the leaves, but this is the first time I read anything about eating the flowers of dandelions. (Thank you EasyGarden Forum!) I have about 50 of them...

I'm new to Western Washington, we moved here from Houston, TX. Recently we noticed red celery-lookin stuff growing right up from the grass. "Don't touch it!! Atleast not until we learn what it is!" (We are such Texans, we are used to everything jumping out to bite, sting or poison us!)...