But since you enjoyed your trip to the farm......
Posted on 11/01/2024 6:46:36 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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An 8 lb chicken - wow (so was the price ... he must have thought an awful lot of you to spend that kind of $$ LOL). I have a Butterball turkey that has been in my freezer for a good while now (2-3 years). Since I now have my own fridge, I have room to thaw it. I plan on roasting it & packaging the meat for casseroles.
The one thing I really miss around here is DIRT. I had a wonderful dirt pile at the old place & used it to fill my raised beds. Here at the new place, I was going to have to buy topsoil. That scenario has changed! After the guys cut in the new driveway, I will have a humongous dirt pile, even after they fill in all the low spots in the yard (one is the size of a swimming pool, just not as deep, probably 12-18”).
I have other low spots & stump holes to fill and I figure I can layer the dirt with compost & organic fertilizer in the raised beds .... say 3/4 full & just use bought topsoil for the last 12”. I have mom’s 3 raised beds to fill + my 4 galvanized beds & anything else I build.
Love the driveway! Mom eventually wants to asphalt it, but that is so expensive that we’ll just live with gravel for a while. This house is 62 years old & appears to never have had a driveway or sidewalk to the front door. Surprising because the front porch & door are nice as is the entry foyer. The back entrances are French doors into the dining room (you have to walk around the table) or through the garage into the laundry room. Unloading groceries is easiest at the front porch/door, too. Exciting times!!
“Exciting times!”
“This house is 62 years old & appears to never have had a driveway or sidewalk to the front door.”
Isn’t that crazy?
Hurray for dirt! Hurray for gravel! :)
But since you enjoyed your trip to the farm......
Happy for you in your great new home adventure! It sounds like a wonderful place! (Rural, bucolic; The American Arcadia!)
Thanks for the Mederma suggestion. I was going to start with cocoa butter as I’ve seen that really fade scars on friends that have had thyroid cancer,right at the base of the neck, so very obvious, but I’ll check the ingredients on both.
I like the idea of the Mederma PM where you put it on at night.
It feels like all the outer stitches have faded away, so I can probably start some ‘recovery’ lotions and potions now. If anyone else has tried different products to fade scaring, please let me know!
I’m catching up on the thread, so maybe someone has mentioned this, but I use Mederma on scars. It works well as long as I remember to put it on. The earlier I do and the more consistency I have, the better my results.
As for hair, how long is yours? If short, maybe consider letting it get longer. I have a scar from when I had chickenpox as an adult (yes, that’s quite a story), so I started wearing bangs after that. All these years later, it has faded some, so I’m not as self conscious about it as I used to be. Now its forehead wrinkles that I cover up. ;)
We revived a farm house that hadn’t been lived in for 30 years that appeared to have no driveway. I think it probably was gravel but the earth and grass ate it.
Rainy day so I was went a rabbit hole of plant nutrition. Seems it’s been declining for decades. Heirlooms also tend to be more nutritious than hybrids in general but maybe not F1 hybrids.
“” Recent studies of historical nutrient content data for fruits and vegetables spanning 50 to 70 years show apparent median declines of 5% to 40% or more in minerals, vitamins, and protein in groups of foods, especially in vegetables. “”
Watched a documentary where they took a store bought tomato and an heirloom to a lab and the store bought was 50-70% lower in major nutrients. Store bought was unknown variety and growing method. Heirloom was grown in healthy soil by an organic farmer.
There’s a company in Israel that developed a tomato with a 3 week shelf life but it has no flavor and they don’t test for nutrients because that’s not important to the industry. The goal was a tomato that would handle being shipped by sea(slow but cheap).
Read a few studies and it seems an heirloom grown in healthy soil is #1 for nutrition. Saw one study that suggests good taste and high nutrition have a correlation. That means a good tasting F1 hybrid could be as nutritious as an heirloom.
Yes, Pete recommended Mederma and I’m going to pick some up on Monday when I go to town. I am starting with cocoa butter today.
And I just realized I forgot the Saturday Morning Ping! So I will go do that and post an article of interest that is not ALL ABOUT ME for a change, LOL! :)
Wait! Holistic/Herbal remedies to fade scars? ;)
Sorry for the late ping! We had guests this morning who were here bow hunting, so we got talking and...
No worries - it’s football Saturday and we all are watching.
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No sign of an old gravel driveway ... as much as the guys cut down for the new one, they would have run into remnants if there.
I have not bought tomatoes at a store for years - no taste at all. The ones I have grown myself are full of flavor. When overloaded, I take the excess to the fire station & those guys really love getting them. Another way to kill flavor in a tomato is put it in the refrigerator.
Nutrition is one of the reasons why I buy whatever the local orchard market has. It’s not just an orchard anymore. Several years ago they added corn, then other fruits and vegetables after that. It’s all grown right there. Last night we enjoyed their broccoli which is still in season. Yummm!
There are some things they offer that aren’t local, like freestone peaches from South Carolina or Georgia when it’s that season. They send apples down there as an exchange kind of program.
When I can get the locally grown produce from there, it’s so great. Since I can’t have a vegetable garden here, I rely on the farmers market and the orchard market for the homegrown stuff. The taste is so much better, and I have to think that the nutritional value is even more so than what the grocery store offers.
I think I’ve finally removed all the death from the garden due to salt water inundation. I’m going to skip a winter garden to prepare for re-emergence in early Spring.
We have rocky soil in the Ozarks so digging down, rocks will be found. My walking path to the shop has had enough soil erosion that it’s now almost a gravel path. Luckily the garden area’s pretty rock free.
The correlation between taste and nutrition is probably instinctual and why we have cravings. Craving something sweet? Blood sugar level might be low.
Craving for a tomato that has no taste? Doesn’t happen. The plant breeder that created the 3 week storage tomato passed off the taste aspect by saying, they can put put olive oil and salt on them.
And start splitting wood (the old-fashioned way) double-time.
Aaaand, we've got a new President!
Did they find any bows?..........
Since you have real maple syrup from your farm, thought you might be interested in this:
Maple Pecan Pie (Without Corn Syrup)
https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/maple-pecan-pie/
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