Those goats will climb on anything!
Posted on 03/23/2008 11:36:40 PM PDT by nw_arizona_granny
Americans finding soaring food prices hard to stomach can battle back by growing their own food. [Click image for a larger version] Dean Fosdick Dean Fosdick
Home vegetable gardens appear to be booming as a result of the twin movements to eat local and pinch pennies.
At the Southeastern Flower Show in Atlanta this winter, D. Landreth Seed Co. of New Freedom, Pa., sold three to four times more seed packets than last year, says Barb Melera, president. "This is the first time I've ever heard people say, 'I can grow this more cheaply than I can buy it in the supermarket.' That's a 180-degree turn from the norm."
Roger Doiron, a gardener and fresh-food advocate from Scarborough, Maine, said he turned $85 worth of seeds into more than six months of vegetables for his family of five.
A year later, he says, the family still had "several quarts of tomato sauce, bags of mixed vegetables and ice-cube trays of pesto in the freezer; 20 heads of garlic, a five-gallon crock of sauerkraut, more homegrown hot-pepper sauce than one family could comfortably eat in a year and three sorts of squash, which we make into soups, stews and bread."
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She compares the current period of market uncertainty with that of the early- to mid-20th century when the concept of victory gardens became popular.
"A lot of companies during the world wars and the Great Depression era encouraged vegetable gardening as a way of addressing layoffs, reduced wages and such," she says. "Some companies, like U.S. Steel, made gardens available at the workplace. Railroads provided easements they'd rent to employees and others for gardening."
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By they way, Granny, can you make butter from goat milk? I don’t see why not, but was just wondering.<<<
I think this morning’s missing word is homogenized, meaning the fat globules are finely dispersed through out the milk and this is the reason many people can drink goats milk, that cannot drink other milks, so sudden shot of fat.
I also means it takes a long time to get cream to rise on goats milk, so I tried to make butter only once and decided it was not worth it.
But making cheese is easy.
get it to the right temperature and add vinegar, LOL, I would want to read the instructions again, but it is about that easy.
Drain and press.
Use the whey as you would milk, in breads and gravies, or feed it to the animals.
When I moved out on the mountain, I bought a full herd of goats off a lady, tried to make cheese and it would not make.
The goats had mastitis and she knew it......I refused to pay for them and did not want them on the place.
I think I'm going to order these seeds for next year:
Tomato Mix (Seed is dyed with food coloring: Pink=Black Krim, Orange=Marmande Super, Yellow=Big Rainbow, Green=Evergreen, Blue=Brandywine, Violet=Cherokee Purple, undyed=Moneymaker)
Item :MTO-6450
Alyssum (Tiny insect predators that protect the garden from chewing insects need small, nectar-rich flowers, and sweet alyssum is a favorite.)
Item :FAL-8654
Bolt-resistant Lettuce Mix (A combination of as many of our varieties as possible)
Item :MBO-6240
Cilantro (Coriander, Chinese Parsley)
Item :HCI-8060
Lavender, Vera
Item :HLA-8220
Oregano
Item :HOR-8310
Rosemary
Item :HRO-8340
Savory
Item :HSA-8380
Herbs for Kids (chamomile, calendula, lemon balm, sunflower, dandelion, fennel and yarrow)
Item :LHE-6715
French Breakfast Radish, Regular
Item :VRA-5090
What do you think? It seemed like an easy set of plants to monitor and take care of. I've found a lot of ways to kill plants, unfortunately. LOL
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That's awful. I assume she took them back. I hope you didn't get sick from the milk. I read an earlier post where you said what to do when filtering milk to make sure it was good.
Very interesting that goat milk is naturally homogenized. Artificially homogenizing cow's milk makes it a lot less healthy, but if God made goat milk that way... hmm, that's really interesting. No wonder it's better for you.
You are posting some good links tonight, thanks, but then you always do.
I had another look at 5716, don’t know what i tried, but got good results....thanks for the reminder, I had forgotten it.
I wonder why it got a name like bananaslug?
I see nothing wrong with your seed list, except that you have some very fine seeds, that will be difficult to get started.
Before you order these, check out the mixes at Pinetree, their seeds are good , cheap and generous and they make wonderful mixes, or did.
Pinetree on the internet is Superseeds.
Kitty: Sinz wen do we allow ani-mulez in teh howz?
Thanks for the kudos, I am having a blast on this thread. When I can't get online I work on the legacy files for this thread. Great reading, an amazing variety of information and links.
No, the bad milk didn’t make me sick, just mad.
I got in a hurry and did not take time to get the test strips, my own stupidity.
In either 1919 or 29, Arizona put out a goat booklet, one of the bits of information in it was that England was doing tests with goat milk, as they thought the flem caused by cow’s milk in some babies , is what caused crib deaths.
That they brought up some of the flem and it closed their wind pipe, so they could not breathe.
I though it made sense, 35 years ago, when Mary let me have her book.....and today, I am sure that it has basis in fact, as that is how I will die more than likely, from this emphysema, have already had a couple close calls.
LOL.
You reelly nead to lern to spel beter......
Thanks for your help, it is fun to share interesting things with folks and one never knows what the next reader is looking for.
And I burned out on the election and terrorism, which you might want to check, as there are a slew of new terror post for today.
So this is my sanity thread, fun or good, that should be the right item that I need.
Well I looked and their prices are great. I was going for stuff that was easy to grow and would give us good results for success so we wouldn't get discouraged as beginners. We need stuff that will thrive in heat and dry conditions. I can't be home in the middle of the day to cover the plants, either... work is 35 miles from home.
It sounds like the rosemary is not easy to start even from the best seeds, so I would probably get a plant or two from the local nursery instead. Pinetree was upfront about the sprouting rate and I appreciate that.
What do they mean when they say a plant will "bolt"?
I appreciate the advice, very much. With online shopping it's easy to change your mind, LOL just close the browser window.
After more exploring on their site, they have rooibos tea, too! Yum!
Kittehs doan wurry bout spellin, dey haz hard time 2 tipe wifout fumbs.
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Some of the unreclaimed seeds will germinate to produce new pinyon pine trees. Consequently, pinyon pine trees employ Pinyon Jays to do their seed dispersal ...
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Check with your state agricultural and the forestry department for trees that land owners can get to plant, you would need the land owners signature, they are cheap and must be ordered ahead of time, will be delivered to central points in the areas that they have orders.
I have seen many on the lists, that bore fruits that were edible.
I grew pine seeds in an old aquarium, we got them out of pine cones that were found on a trip.
granny
Lately with all the news about newspapers, the discussion goes on about "who will bring us the news without the legacy newspapers?" But the real news that happens is suppressed and all we get is stories about downtrodden groups that need and get help from charity or government and individual sensational stories that are reported as if they were outliers. The real news needs to get reported, but the newspapers have become propaganda tools. I guess we'll see a new industry starting up, there certainly is a market for it!
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Pine Tree Seed - Propagate Pine Tree Seed
Pine Tree Seed - Propagate Pine Tree Seed. ... Seeds of most pines germinate without treatment, but germination rates and amounts are greatly increased by ...
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My brother in law grew up on Holbrook, Arizona. Every year he goes up there to get pine nuts. He said his dad used to go to where these trees grew wild, and back the truck gently into the tree so it would shake, and the pine nuts would fall into the truck bed. They might have spread a couple of bedsheets under the tree to catch more of them, too. You have to hull them as you eat. They were sooo tasty! Whole Foods sells them too, already hulled, but wow, they are $8 a pound!
The nut tree growers near here use a shaker to harvest the pistachios, almonds or walnuts. I'd love to see them doing it, I've only heard of the technique.
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