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Frugal Friday Farm Animals Linky - 20-01-2012
Every Friday, I’ll host a Frugal Friday Farm Linky. This week’s theme is farm animals — and any post about your working critters is welcome (pets such as goldfish or house-cats not so much — this is really about farm animals, or any animal that proves its worth in a homesteading/ farming sense. Please enter [...]
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Tea Time: Whole Wheat Blueberry Scone Recipe - 16-01-2012
I recently made whole wheat blueberry scones for an afternoon tea time enjoyed by the whole family. While the kids were home on Christmas break from school, they worked outside with my husband for a couple hours each afternoon on our land-clearing project. They’d build up an appetite long before dinner — and it was [...]
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Butchering a Pig: Sausage Making - 13-01-2012
After the initial steps to hog butchering, making primal cuts and processing the pork chops, my husband packaged up the remaining roasts and ham steaks while I turned to mixing spices. The final step in our pig butchering adventure was the sausage making. We didn’t do it all on the first day of pig butchering, [...]
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Butchering a Pig: Pork Chops - 05-01-2012
After the first steps in butchering a pig and making the primal cuts, we turned to the rest of the meat processing. We did one side as loin roasts and the other as pork chops. Next time, we’ll probably do both sides in pork chops — they have been amazing, incredibly flavorful and tender. The [...]
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Butchering a Pig: Primal Cuts - 31-12-2011
After the initial killing, hanging and gutting, butchering a hog involves making the primal cuts. Something we found very helpful was to have a cut chart handy. Even if you’ve butchered before, it helps to have a diagram available to guide your cuts. The one here is from the Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin “Butchering Livestock [...]
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Butchering a Pig: First Steps - 30-12-2011
The first step in butchering a pig is the kill. But when your homestead has the quality of hobby farm, and the line between farm animal and pet is often blurry, the kill is a difficult thing. When you raise your own animals for meat, you truly understand and appreciate the sacrifice of life that [...]
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Our Frugal Homesteading Adventure: Recent Updates - 27-12-2011
Our homesteading adventure continued this summer and fall with a new baby, a good tomato harvest, a fattened pig, home butchering and sausage making, new day-old chicks, and a brand new hen house. I’ll blog about each of these aspects in much more detail in the coming weeks, but here’s an in-a-nutshell update about us [...]
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Brooding Araucana Chicks - 08-08-2011
We bought six day-old chicks to add to our egg laying chickens flock, brooding them in May and June and introducing them to the flock in July. Here are a couple pictures of them during the brooding phase, which we did in a large plastic tote in our garage: We rested the heat lamp on [...]
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From Lawn to Vegetable Garden - 02-06-2011
We’re turning part of our lawn into a vegetable garden. Blessed with a large, relatively flat backyard (and there’s no front yard to speak of; it’s mostly trees and very shaded) we decided to utilize some of the land for growing tomatoes, peppers, squash and melons this year. The area used as a garden by [...]
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Frugal Homesteaders ? Share Your Best Posts! - 26-05-2011
Update: No more blog carnivals – I guess they are a bit outdated now — but I’ll be doing a monthly “linky” post where others can share their blog posts — I’ll update this again when I have ti all set up. Blog carnivals are a great way to showcase your blog, attract new visitors, [...]
