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Self Sufficiency & Homesteading
Serious food gardening, raising homestead animals, and off-grid self reliance from The Nourishing Hearthfire.
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Mulberries on the homestead and in the kitchen
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I don’t think there’s anything that gives a feeling of abundance more than fruit trees. To watch the tree first awaken in early spring, the incomparable colour of soft green buds, and then the fragile pastel flowers bursting into life, covering the tree in the archetypal colours of springtime. We moved onto this rental property in winter, when the trees stood bare and skeleton-like in the frosted landscape. We had no idea of what would happen to these trees in…
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How to sterilise jars and milk buckets without chemicals
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Raw milk is an important food to my family, so much so that we don’t mind buying all of our goats’ feed in while living in suburban sized blocks with no grazing land. To make the most of this precious milk, and to make sure that there’s no chance of us getting sick, I am careful about having a milking routine that minimises the chances of the milk getting contaminated. How to sterilise jars and milk buckets without chemicals: oven…
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