We have a wood stove and love it, but I don't have a proper wood cook stove.
Posted on 12/30/2012 6:33:21 PM PST by teenyelliott
So, I'm sure at least one person here on FR has wondered what happened to me, maybe two of you. Before I really really stopped posting, many of us had discussed the possibility, and or the desire, to get out of the city to our own little homesteads and try to grow some food, for security, for peace of mind, for whatever reason.
Well, my family did it.
Two years ago we made the jump. We bought a place in the country, and have spent the past couple of years setting up our little homestead. We have a big garden, many chickens, some ducks, some guineas, some sheep, some goats, and a barn for all of them. A woodstove, a hand pump well, even a solar chicken coop.
Any of my old pals, and any new ones, come check us out! Would be pleased to hear from you, and share what we are learning.
Please ping any of my old buddies that you know of; I seem to have misplaced my old ping list!
You are fortunate to be in the Ozarks. That was where we wanted to be, but ended up having to stay in KS after three contracts in MO fell through. It is beautiful.
Do you want to be added to the ping list for this thread?
I would really appreciate being on your ping list. Thanking you in advance.
That is so neat how you figured out how to grow celery!
I was just cutting up some celery today to put in stuffing and will use the bottom to try to grow some. Why do you think that it will not grow celery stalks but just seeds?
That is so neat how you figured out how to grow celery!
I was just cutting up some celery today to put in stuffing and will use the bottom to try to grow some. Why do you think that it will not grow celery stalks but just seeds?
Yes Please add me to the ping list, what ever that is lol.
Thanks again and I look forward to learning and teach what little I know.
God Bless.
Hi upcountry miss! Good to see you again.
These prepper/homesteading threads are a nice break from all the infighting that typically goes on in the political threads. Either we just get along better here or the common purpose is more important than being right. Yes, we will be cordial ;)
Sounds like you’ve been busy as usual. And can now enjoy some relaxation since it’s winter. 5 cords of wood is a lot! Is that about how much you need in a winter?
My dream is an old-fashioned wood cook stove! A neighbor in the mountains had one for sale. I couldn’t justify getting it (they aren’t cheap), because I had nowhere to put it to use. Maybe the next house - that’ll hopefully be on 40-50 acres and have lots of wood available on it.
Not butterscotch, vanilla
Ozarks?
yet another geographic? you can change your name and location, but you are still the same.
#1 Shmuck...was not allowed any longer. it took 3 weeks or so for them to get back to me and create Jpine. # 2 yes the ozarks. The eastern mountains of Oklahoma....actually rolling hills are the southern part of the Ozark mountains. Property is at about 1200 foot elevation. Most beautiful.
Coop...mom.....3 has important info PLEASE check it out.
It smells more like butterschotch than vanilla.
Wood stoves are wonderful,but are not for everybody. Our children worry about us using it. The stovepipe needs removing and cleaning regularly and the chimney must be checked every few weeks. However the joy of having all those different temperature ranges just by moving the kettle nearer or farther away from the fire, plus the different uses for the oven-cooking, drying boots, warming feet or keeping dinner warm for a latecomer. My nearly 100 year old fold down drying rack on the wall near my stove also gets lots of use drying mittens, boots and not quite dry clothes taken in from the outside clothesline.
Again the children think I’m foolish operating this way when I have a nearly new electric range and clothes dryer but have always lived this way and really enjoy it.
I plan on taking photos all along. I'm growing two, so maybe I'll harvest on one, bit by bit, and see if the other goes to seed or not.
I am itching for spring! Must start growing things now. :)
We have a wood stove and love it, but I don't have a proper wood cook stove.
May I please be added to your ping list?
Thank you.
Love your webpage and liked you on FB. Please ping me to your posts. Thank you for all the great information you share!
I am sure they will. I am just a newbie. Took over posting the thread just to help out. I have learned quite a bit, but also have forgotten some of it. So it goes. My memory is not what it once was.
I’ll be happy to help if I can.
I thought I was strange to do much like what you're doing. I buy a bunch of celery and extract stalks from the outer edge but leave the leafy center in tact and the rootlet bottom. Then when the last of the stalks is used, the leafy portion rising up in the center from the rootlet is placed on wet paper towels and set in a sunny window. I've found that the leafy portion grows much faster if the rootlet is not in direct sunlight, as in a brown glass or pottery container. I have a transfer pot where the rooting leafy portion goes when the root's show at the edge of the wet paper towels. DO NOT LET THE TOWELS DRY OUT when rooting.
thanks for the instructions.
Then, do you plant them in pots or in the ground?
Reminds me somewhat of my grandparents huge old cook stove. It stood independently, flush to the floor with no legs. However, behind the stove was a large fireplace with a cooking oven and a warming oven, shelves and many interesting gadgets.
The frustrating thing was when my grandparents died in the early 60s, my father GAVE the stove, a seven piece hand stenciled bedroom set and lots of other furniture to a used furniture dealer, pleased that he didn’t have to PAY to have the items removed.
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