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Warming the Winter Chicken Chickens all originated from the Jungle Cock in southeast Asia.  Southeast Asia is for the most part a warm and temperate place.  With the majority of breeds being bred for eggs, there are a few that are bred for cold hardiness.  Typically large bodied birds have …

Making Your Potting Mix 1 part wet wood stove pellet (make sure its pure wood) 1 part fine pine bark 1 part peat moss (optional) can substitute coconut coir instead of peat 1 part coarse sand For a starter soil you want something fine and light.  You also want to …

Coquito Egg Nog Recipe Here is an easy and quite tasty eggnog recipe with a Puerto Rican style.  It’s not all completely from scratch but its good.  Its a good way to use the food storage to rotate some canned goods if you want to use that excuse. 1 egg …

Happy People:  A Year in the Taiga I ran across this film on Netflix.  On occasion, I will watch documentaries, as I don’t really find mainstream entertainment all that entertaining. I decided to watch it thinking that it might be interesting to see how other cultures live. After all, our …

Moroccan Spiced Coffee 1/2 cup coffee or espresso beans 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon 1 or 2 whole cloves 3 to 4 cardamom pods 1/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger (optional) Put the ingredients in a coffee grinder and grind them up uniformly. Makes about 6 tablespoons roughly …

Ten spots per runner. 60 holesmax for three inch pots. Fashioned after a popular design.

We dug out one shovel width of soil along our stone wall. Dug about 12 inches deep roughly and mixed in some pine bark fines, sand, gravel, and chicken compost. We did this to add drainage to the compact dirt that is there. Also wood chips. We then put the …

Aquaponics From an IBC Tank Made this to try out aquaponics from mostly things I had lying around. Been into fish since I was a kid and gardening too. A friend bought some IBC tanks and I thought Id give it a try. It is in the ‘laboratory’ (pronounce as …

Planting seeds in starter pots is a great way to get kids excited about gardening. Here are some seeds started to sprout and we put them in a potting mix. The potting mix has no dirt and it is a soilless mix. The potting mix is made from sawdust, fine …