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i dont think it can be accurate as you have some fails and some gluts etc - as already said we are guilty of always trying to do more.. Always more, and we have had to learn to cut back or it gets silly - as it is we have 6 freezers (though we do raise our own chickens, pork, duck and mutton) and fa...

Zech wrote:I know nothing about this, but I know who does, and she doesn't seem to have spotted this thread yet.

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aha! i was just thinking.. i know i know!

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Jail Ale - from Dartmoor

I'd say its not like facebook - which i am still resisting. it can be used as a social wossit, or it can be used as a place to build up images or ideas etc. I've seen folk who are writing a book use it for research and others for mood boards to build up a wishlist for their home etc. use if as you l...

I do hope that this is not the end of paper books, it won't be quite the same for future generations to inherit an ebook device full of Granny's recipes, or a computer file. I like my old recipe books that someone's written in the margins! true - we inherited a copy of Mrs Beeton's househole manage...

i would imagine non fiction in general is less popular in digital format I'm not ready to give up actual books and actual cds etc - and even print my own recipes from my website out and put them in a folder for easy use in the kitchen. I have a netbook i use at the kitchen table, so more and more i ...

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we made soap using the fat from our pigs - the best fat was the pure lard found near the kidneys. We rendered it several times to get it really clean - then used a calculator to work out the lye. oh and some essential oil to make it smell nice. We use the hot process method. nice creamy soap, and al...

inbreeding causes problems - and to keep pure breeds, often there is inbreeding, but not necessarily so. the chicken question is a red herring (sorry to bring fish into this too! :lol: )but hybrids are very much bred, so have their problems, equally there can be problems with traditional breeds of c...

Being pagan is great .. you dont have to follow any instruction on your path. It nature based, connecting with our mother earth and father sky .. seeing properly the world we walk on and try to connect to ... this is me - and thus i spose it makes me a pagan - but I don't generally call myself that...

raising our own turkey certainly is an economy - we can't compete with the mass produced sad turkeys, but compared to free range local, ours cost us about half the price to raise

red cabbage really easy - but you do have to fend off slugs and caterpillars

dang did i miss the fun?

*must pay more attention*

not been very successful at butternut over the years

we grow crown prince now - they store really well and roast etc like butternut

use the scent you can live with all of these things are just to disguise the smell of yummy wool that the wool moths are attracted to. Also - they like dark damp places - so move the furniture about a tad. and vacuum the little darlings up! if you know you have a moth problem in the house - think ab...