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My wife stores them in jars, first she peals them and rubs off the fur then she packs them in to Kilner jars and sterilises them for 20 minutes at 11pond of pressure in a pressure cooker. 100% success rate and we have chestnut and chocolate cake any time of year we like, of course the cake is best i...

Flo, we have 13 acres but nothing to do with luck, we intentionally left well paid careers for a simple life, then put in a lot of hard work and design time to get here. Now its less work and lots of time doing the things we love most, spending time together enjoying our stunning environment and I d...

!00% in meat and eggs, free range pork, grass fed beef and pastured chickens for meat and eggs. Two full 12 cubic feet freezers guarantee 100% again this year. 90% in vegetables still eating our own some of these have been bottled to preserve, hope to be 100% this year. 60% in fruit 100% in soft fru...

I agree with "old Jerry" he is exactly right. One other idea you might try get down to your local allotments and ask around to see if anyone there is willing to sell you some of your veg. There are usually plenty of good old boys who have been gardening the right way since before the term ...

For designs just Google chicken tractor I have tractors I built 6 years ago still in service which cost me less than £50 each. I would avoid building large permanent houses which stay in one place. They cost more, chickens on the same soil every day are more susceptible to disease & death, and t...

Hi you might like to take a look at this site it has loads of useful advice on setting up intentional communities.

http://www.ic.org/

best of luck

I second that its been a pleasure to read all about how the big boys and girls do it, I think I will stay small scale and hope I don’t lose sight of the true exhilarating joy of it all.

But what does it tell? Wulf (with a colourful picture) Firstly Wulf let me say I did notice and note the colour in your picture. Of course my comment was a generalisation what it tells is as diverse as a client list? It tells different things in respect of what is drawn, and of what is drawn what i...

I have to comment on the lack of colour in the lives of some of the Ishers, it says tooooooooo much about your personalities.

In play therapy with children the lack of colour in pictures of children’s houses is seen as a deeply telling element of the child’s psyche.


Steve

I bread rabbits and kill them for our own use as well as for sale to the public, they have a neck which I can only descried as being designed to break easily. A fox can grip the head of a rabbit and shake its own head and break the neck of the rabbit instantaneously, I have to say nev’s idea ...

Do you milk the mothers, or are they purely suckler cows? I don't know much about the breed! Hi Ina I had never heard of Normande cows until I moved to France 21 months ago, we wanted a Jersey cow, but on the advice of books I bought from a local farmer, I asked for a milk cow and he offered me 2 N...

Steve & Fiona would like to announce the arrival of their new baby Boy, Paris. Paris was born at 6:00 am 07/04/06 weighing 55Kg. Mother (Poppy) & Son are doing very well. Poppy is a pure breed Normande cow, and Paris is a cross Normande-Charolais, Paris was born without human assistance and ...

I don’t know the specifics of registration requirements for Ireland, but as your part of Europe I would think they are the same as England and France, phone your equivalent of “DEFRAâ€Â

Hi Ireland-or-bust You have a lot of choices as regards meat. Pigs are wonderful creatures and if kept free rang they will taste just wonderful you will get more meat than from any other animal you could keep on an acre. You will have to keep two, as one on its own will get bored and wreck your fenc...

Fiona and I are going through a pair of Wellingtons a year now that we spend our lives out in the garden, I just can’t bring myself to throw them out usually they have a minor leak or something like that so no good as water holding devices. So anyway I have had one idea flower pots, obviously...