In reply to A.A.. AA, some kind of little weevil I think,not exactly sure, but I think...
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Hi again Nita and sorry to bother you :) I'm trying to save rutabaga seeds and it looks like someone's getting to the pods before I do. The pods look good while green, but start to wither before ...
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In reply to A.A.. AA, wow! I don't. I've only seen the recipes with the curing salt. C...
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Hi Nita! A quick question, do you know of any resources on fermenting meat? How to do a whole sheep's worth of meat for instance? All I've found recommend adding some curing nitrates, which I can...
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Ah. Thank you! Off to read and learn!
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In reply to NM. NM, you know, any summer before this one a lot of my summer garden blo...
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Sometime in all that copious spare time of yours (ha), would you consider a post on dryland gardening? I'd like to try it next year.
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Well the climatologists told us we were in for a warm, dry winter due to a developing El Nino and it's been the coldest and wettest for many years (so hay stocks diminishing fast)! After losing l...
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I've observed a noticeable decline in bees (and butterflies) and the lack of pollination. My fear was neighbors were spraying what ever it is they spray, which could still be part of the problem,...
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In reply to matronofhusbandry. Thank you! Now to source manure. Farmers here seem to u...
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