Forum: Homemaking and Homesteading

We had turkeys when I was growing up - they were just part of the farm. Now, after a years of not having any I bought 4 white midgets and they are growing pretty fast. Not knowing about feeding them I asked the person who sold them to me, what should I feed them - she said game bird feed. I asked...

My son and his wife have become vegans. They live in a city, started a small garden, and bought a composter. He says he now has swarms of gnats in and around the composter and wants them gone. Yeah, I know, but he doesn't consider insects animals to be protected... Does anyone know of an...

I bought two dwarf Peach trees, two strawberry baskets and a flat of strawberry plants, and three tomato plants. So far. :D I also bought several cubic foot bags of organic humus/compost mix and some of potting soil mix. It is pretty near impossible to find anything that does not have added stuff...

Well, the greenhouse guy dropped my 3+ yards of half compost/half loam yesterday morning... (compost is half cow manure from an organic dairy farm already composted and screened and half leaves/grass/organic matter) whew.....that stuff is HEAVYYYYY.... It has been covered all winter with...

I am having a mice issue in my shed. It’s about 8’ x 10’ and I’m finding stuff chewed on. I put mouse poison out last fall and within a week it was all gone. So I put 2 more trays out. THAT was gone in a week. So I put out 2 more and that stayed for a while. But with the warm weather I...

:spns::spns::spns: Looks nice a healthy this year too. I am just using up that from last year. It was SO good. Nice and strong and did well just hanging in the bedroom where it's cool and dark. I always plant Siberian btw cause we live in the mt's of Maine where the winters can be awful. ...

Just opened the Hive, No bees, still some Honey...the local experts are telling us it's CCD ( Colony Collapse Disorder )! The word here is that it is happening everywhere around us! so now we are starting over.......so sad.

Okay this is a really stupid idea I know, but I have several columar apple trees that are flowering right now and haven't seen a bee anywhere. I was thinking about what happens if all the bees do die off, can I polinate the trees using a Qtip?

I don't get why you would need a special unit for pasteurization unless it is so you don't accidentally boil the milk or whatever you are pasteurizing? (BTW-You have to register first in order to bid on shopgoodwill.com) (IF YOU BUY IT, I LOCATED THE INSTRUCTION BOOK FOR IT ($10) AT ANOTHER...

Anyone have suggestions on how to remove Dry Erase Marker from a cotton top? It is brightly colored cotton pique, so I can’t use bleach. We won’t discuss the fact that I can’t seem to give a presentation without knocking over the dry erase board, getting the blue dry erase marker on my top. ...