Member HoneysGarden
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When children are a participating member of the household – on a farm or otherwise – they develop both a sense purpose, of being needed, and of self-worth. Both of those will help maintain a healthy mindset; many of those children who commit suicide have no sense of purpose, and see no point in remaining here.
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I didn’t use all the fish we cleaned two summers ago . . . but I’d take a catfish carcass, dig a 2-foot deep hole with a posthole digger, and put it in the bottom. Add some dirt, various fertilizers, more dirt, my tomato, and fill the hole. Never any smell – and the only thing I found last summer was a stray vertebra!
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I didn’t see anyone else mention this . . . but, like all of us, children need to have a purpose. Those who suffer from depression, who attempt suicide, often feel like they aren’t needed and have no purpose in life. A child that helps, that has defined responsibilities – on the farm or in the household – AND gets acknowledgement for their contribution to the family – rarely suffers from feeling a lack of purpose; they feel needed and appreciated! So absolutely yes . . . the responsibility and lessons learned are important, but equally important is the mental and emotional wellbeing of your children (or grandchildren)!
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I’ll be doing the same. PermaPastures has had great results planting nitrogen-fixers right next to the fruit trees. He used mimosa or black locust, but I’m inclined to go with redbud. I won’t be getting apple trees, as there are several large cedar trees next door, so cedar-apple rust is a real concern, but I’d like peach, pear and cherry trees.
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All true . . . however, as you say, cats will still catch rodents – AND baby chicks, if the opportunity presents.
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I lived on a farm with a small coop and enclosure. It was chain-link fencing, with chicken wire across the top to protect from aerial predators. The chicken wire came 18-24″ down the side of the chain-link, but just had a few points where it was secured.
Well, we had a number of barn cats, and I caught one in the act of eating one of the baby chicks – just outside the fencing. Obviously he climbed the chain-link, under the chicken wire, dropped down inside and grabbed a chick, then climbed back out to eat his catch outside the pen. We promptly secured the chicken wire snugly all around the fencing! So, just a possibility if you happen to have cats around!
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For what it’s worth, it took me a minute (well, actually a couple days) to figure out that the terms at the top of the profile page were links to add information . . . and then to enter my state.
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Our local Lions Club had a sale, and I bought a box of peaches – canned about half, made peach salsa with the other half, and saved about 20 seeds, as these were cling-free peaches and I’d like to plant a few. I had been considering trying to start them and get them in the ground before winter – but considering this will probably be an unusually hard winter, I believe I’ll wait until spring!
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I shared a house for several years with an RN who was subject to migraines. After noticing that she’d gotten one shortly after using tea tree oil, we started monitoring hormone shifts – headaches nearly always occurred just before and just after a period; and tea tree oil contains an estrogen simulator, so we concluded that her particular sensitivity involved estrogen. Other than avoiding things that contain estrogen simulators (and a lot of shampoos, conditioners, deoderants, etc. have them) we didn’t come up with an effective treatment; just knew when to anticipate them, and have painkillers on hand.
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A friend of mine used to have a large yard with a variety of fowl, including peacocks. She lost two of the peacocks in exactly that fashion – an owl swooped down and decapitated them. She stopped free-ranging for a time, had a large covered run and kept her birds up until the owl moved on . . . we get BIG barn owls around here!
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I’m not so sure about that “zombie apocalypse” – some speculation on potential effects of a certain injection coupled with 5G indicate a possibility of zombie-like behavior, and there is also some evidence that movies are used to ‘tell’ us what’s coming – and we have a LOT of zombie movies! So, I wouldn’t rule even that possibility out!
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I believe you can also use the white liquid in dandelion stems. It’s been a year (or 20) but I used to use it when one of our horses would get warts on their nose (not uncommon, not dangerous, but definitely unsightly!). I could usually clear the problem up within a week or so.
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That seems unlikely; the batter was so thick I was dropping globs by spoonful into the bread pans. That’s a characteristic of sweet breads, it seems . . . whether it’s zucchini, pumpkin or others I’ve made, they are always very thick – unlike a cake mix, which could be poured. This may be one of those things I never figure out . . .
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There are various methods of connecting totes – a quick search on youtube turned up a slew of videos showing how different individuals got’er done . . . I just searched ‘connecting IBC totes’.
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I don’t know if this is viable – but I have a heated pet water bowl. I think it operates on a thermostat, the bottom heat comes on if temp drops below 40 or something . . . it would need to be filled and perhaps cleaned, and probably wouldn’t work for little chicks who might fall in and drown, but it will keep the water from freezing and I think would work for adult birds . We have outdoor cats, and maintain water for them throughout the winter with this.