Hardiness Zones tell you ‘diddly squat’ if you live where I live. Hardiness zones - tell the annual extreme minimum temperature. That’s it! It misses the fact that Hazelnut trees (zone 4) will grow here but not produce fruit. It isn’t the cold but the too short a growing season that prevents it. The Wyoming …
On occasion, I get kick back on the way I feed my rabbits. I respect the choices of those who disagree with me. They are doing what works well for them but what most people don't realize is we don't live where they live, we don't have the same rabbits they do, nor do we …
When he was forming the United Nations, Winston Churchill said, " Never let a good crisis go to waste." Most often this philosophy is used to exact political change that in any other circumstance, for the time period, would not be tolerated. This isn't a political blog so let's take this saying out of that …
"Grandma, how's my spider? I've been crying. I'm worried about her." was the concerned voice I heard on the phone. What was I thinking getting my granddaughter attached to such a creepy creature? This was the child that just a few weeks before was too scared to open her window to let in evening's cool …
It's corn on the cob season for us in Wyoming, YUM, YUM!! But personally for my husband and I, we prefer corn off the cob. The dripping of greasy butter down our chins and gnawing the kernels off the cob doesn't bring us pleasure. So instead, we cut the corn off and use the cobs …
Do you choose your livestock because of the type of food available in your pastures or do you buy livestock because of what food they provide for you and then look for food for them? My answer would be all of the above. In part because I'm a pasture idiot. I know little about the …
Don’t let what you can not do interfere with what you can do. -John Wooden – Kirk and I, two misfits in a world where mindless conformity governs actions, have participated in trying to navigate normal. It has left us crippled mentally and physically. Slowed down, depressed, we’ve wonder, is life is just meant to …
A survival garden is a personal grocery store from which you subsist. It provides you with sustainable food that is dependable in your climate year after year without having to rely on outside sources. Outsourcing when opportunity arises is different than out of necessity. This magnitude of garden is not attainable for most of us …
Concerned over the flaws in our food system in the United States, I decided to take a page out of history. A page where people lived for the most part from what they produced and that meant a rationing of supplies. We were dependent on three freezers for five years but I found myself unable …
Years ago I was able to get what was called, "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" from a company which services the methane field. They put up and took down fencing that was around the methane pumps. They had a pile of the fencing and wanted to get rid of it. There was the …
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