DIY

Is everybody settled after the Blogger outage? I hope so. I was getting worried there for a bit.

It was unseasonably warm this week and we had a good bit …
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Yesterday the Student and I went foraging for morels for the first time. The first hour or so we came up completely empty, but encouraged by seeing others slowly walking the woods …
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For those of you following along, I built and used a cold smoker last fall and winter.  Since then I’ve been looking into a hot smoker.

Leading up up to …
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A few things have changed since we left for Texas a week ago. I’m taking the next week to try and get the garden in shape fro the coming season. …
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I can hear the cardinal singing birdie-birdie-birdie and it’s been raining for the last day,  and though it is quite cool, the moisture has spurred the plants, particularly the spring …
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We filled the beds with equal parts (by volume) of compost (I used composted horse manure, and purchased mushroom and cow manure compost. The book (Square Foot Gardening) suggests 5 …
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Learn to build simple wooden raised bed frames out of inexpensive lumber simple hardware and a little elbow grease!

The last few years, before I got more interested in vegetable gardening, I would start most of my vegetables by purchasing seedlings. There is nothing wrong with that, but it transfers some …
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As I’ve mentioned over on Facebook, my plan this year is to try several different methods for food production. here is what I’m thinking

1) I’ve got the big veggie plot …
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