Member BLTN
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That’s one of the difficulties with horse manure, it retains many of the weed seeds intact. Cattle, with their four stomachs, destroy more weed seeds in their digestive process so you get fewer (but still some) in the garden. Getting the compost hot as it breaks down is the only thing I know…or using heat on the weeds themselves when they first come up (flame weeding) before planting your garden.
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I slice them & dehydrate, then store in a vacuum sealed jar. In hot weather they can be added to a simple glass of water, in cold weather to a cup of hot tea, if I’m feeling the sniffles coming on I can put in a cup of hot water with raw local honey. My haul was so small I didn’t bother with the peels, but if I had more I would put them in vinegar for a cleaning solution.
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I have no personal experience with canning dry beans, but Jessica at Three Rivers Homestead has canned her dry beans. I’m pretty sure she pressure cans, since they’re a low acid food, but if I remember right she said she teaches her children using dry beans, so it should be a fairly basic process. I wish you well!
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Thanks! Plentiful water is a big deal…used to be plentiful here, last two years near-drought conditions. I’d be living in a small town, don’t have the means to do life in the country, much as I’d like to. One concern I have with Falls City, after checking out the city data site that was recommended, was that they seem to have a lot of registered sex offenders…site says about the same per capita as the rest of NE, but it’s more than ten times what we have here.
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Excellent, thank you! When I enter it, so many things pop up it’s hard to know which sites have worthwhile information & which don’t. This will be very helpful.
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I didn’t even think of either – I have butter & lard & tallow & olive oil & avocado oil & coconut oil & a tiny bottle of oil that came with the dog trimmer – so many choices!
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I don’t think I want to go back to things like they were in ’35 – both of my parents were old enough to remember it well – neither were impressed. I wouldn’t mind going back 35 years though – my parents would still be alive, and I’d have more energy and fewer aches & pains!
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Excellent, thank you!
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I would have to liquify a small amount, then find a way to put one drop into each of two tiny holes, 1/8″ or less in diameter.
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Don’t you worry about it becoming rancid? I’ll be putting one drop into each of two tiny holes on the underside of the toaster to lubricate the pop-up mechanism…”automatic” toasters were so new then, the card actually explains how they work! My concern is that there will be no way for me to wipe off excess oil, or ever get in there to clean the area.