Homesteader Life

Its been raining for a few days. Fine with me because we have 98% of the garden in and it saves several hours of watering in the evenings. Trying to do a better job of keeping things hoed this year and so far I’ve been keeping up with it. Two nights ago we had a frost in the valleys but we covered everything up on the hill just to be safe. That was a job and a half and I hope that its the last frost scare for the season. The boys and their grandpa have made some little nesting cages out of old bread trays and have about 50 or so eggs under some broody hens. When they find a setting hen they grab her and stick her in a pen under a huge pile of eggs. We won’t be depending on mail order chicks this year! Its the cheapest non electric incubator I’ve seen. Grass is holding out pretty good and the cows are milking well. Hay looks to be on the lean side this year. It was so dry early on that its already starting to head out and needs to be harvested cause it ain’t going to grow any more than it has. I need to start thinking about finding some piglets pretty soon. They are harder to find this year, around here anyway.

Here are a few news stories that might interest you…

Edible Vaccines and Flying Syringes

The great carbon credit con: Why are we paying the Third World to poison its environment?

Calvinists are taking over China

And here is some audio…

Listen to Andrea Schwartz interview Anna Sofia and Elizabeth Botkin.

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