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Adding a Hydroponic Garden
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This week we are adding a hydroponic garden in the grow room. I’m excited about it for several reasons! Fresh garden salad veggies in the middle of winter. Knowing were the end product comes from is becoming more important with the outbreak of the different diseases being reported. Affordability of my salad fixings; lettuce,…
Chicks, Chicks, Market Chicks
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There really isn’t anything cuter then baby chicks in my opinion. About 5 weeks ago we got 30 cute little fluffy, yellow, chirping chicks delivered to our house. Now, fall isn’t the normal time for most people to get chicks because of the cold season approaching. However, we are not most people! We live…
Market Chick Brooder Installation
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We had market chicks coming which was a good thing since I’ve been out of chicken for a couple of months. But… there was another problem, where were we going to put them? In case you don’t know there are companies that sell chicks and send them out all over the United States through…
The Dream of a Seed
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For those of us in Northern Hemisphere most of us are thinking of winter gardens with a dream of a seed in our heads. That is where it all begins! What can we grow with a shorter amount of daylight and with winter improaching upon us. For me that means a lot of root…
Beneficial Bunnies for the Garden
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Most of the time when one thinks of bunnies in the garden it is more with dread then with benefit. After all, the cute little creatures might of just nibbled on your beautiful garden veggies. There is even the chance of finding cute little baby bunnies hidden under your mulch while mommy is out…
Benefits of a Fall Garden
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Lack of Heat & Bugs in the Fall Garden The benefits of a fall garden for one is the lack of bugs and heat. In North Texas both are an extreme problem during the summer. With the hundred degree weather right now and most of my summer garden dead I am looking forward to…
Let’s Make Healthy Homemade Dog Food
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Hey friend, do you have dogs? Yeah, me too. Actually, I’ve got three… three chihuahuas. For years I bought dog food started out with dry and then we started buying refrigerated dog food with meat and veggies. The dogs liked that food but it is expensive! That got me to wondering if I could…
Doing Mid-Summer Morning Chores
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I thought you all might like to go along with Ron and do the morning chores on this hot summer day. We have chores down to pretty good system. Ron still works a full-time job so systems are needed here on the homestead. Right now our animals are easy to care for and we…
Carrots, Carrots, Carrots!
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Today we talk about How to harvest #carrots from the garden, the best way to store carrots and a couple of carrot recipe ideas
Water Problem in the Grow Room
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Water problems in the grow room. How we saw the problem and because it is an easy DIY fix for most homeowners we fixed the problem and now have water in the grow room.