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Growing Home: September 2016

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Gardening, self-sufficiency, homesteading, food preserves diary Blog documenting progress in transforming new property (50 acres - mostly wooded) into garden-farmette . Trying to become more self-sufficient and more self-aware. Sunday, September 18, 2016. Beans are DONE - and some rain - finally! Last of the bean picking for this year! Now, to shell them all out! I got out to pick the strawberries, summer squash and tomatoes before we left. Good amount of the tomatoes came from the volunteers! Yep - pick...

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Growing Home: February 2016

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Gardening, self-sufficiency, homesteading, food preserves diary Blog documenting progress in transforming new property (50 acres - mostly wooded) into garden-farmette . Trying to become more self-sufficient and more self-aware. Monday, February 29, 2016. New collet chuck for lathe, spin indexer for mill, and more tree trimming. So I figured I would just machine it down to size! Here is the back plate on the lathe ready to machine! I didn't have to bore the hub this time - it just fit perfectly! Well, her...

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Growing Home: April 2016

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Gardening, self-sufficiency, homesteading, food preserves diary Blog documenting progress in transforming new property (50 acres - mostly wooded) into garden-farmette . Trying to become more self-sufficient and more self-aware. Saturday, April 30, 2016. Rainy weekend. Tree-tube cleanup and machine work. Mowing - of course! Just so its recorded, I mowed the front lawn - not around the cherry trees or the persimmons though. Cleaned up the Paw-paw tubes. Ornamental tree cleanup as well. The dogwoods seemed ...

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Growing Home: May 2016

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Gardening, self-sufficiency, homesteading, food preserves diary Blog documenting progress in transforming new property (50 acres - mostly wooded) into garden-farmette . Trying to become more self-sufficient and more self-aware. Monday, May 30, 2016. We got new dogs! The trip back was not near as bad as the trip up. Still took some time though. Nice sunset. We didn't get home until about 9:30pm. This is a really nice shelter and the staff are wonderful! So we got out for under $500 for everything! Sugar, ...

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Growing Home: July 2016

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Gardening, self-sufficiency, homesteading, food preserves diary Blog documenting progress in transforming new property (50 acres - mostly wooded) into garden-farmette . Trying to become more self-sufficient and more self-aware. Sunday, July 31, 2016. We continue to harvest cucumbers from the raised beds. They seem to be ok - although some damage from the SVBs can be seen, they aren't hit as hard as the squash. Just a few days of cucs here! More on their way. One squash (the last? And a bunch of cucs!

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Growing Home: August 2016

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Gardening, self-sufficiency, homesteading, food preserves diary Blog documenting progress in transforming new property (50 acres - mostly wooded) into garden-farmette . Trying to become more self-sufficient and more self-aware. Monday, August 29, 2016. Freeze-dryer oil flush kit. After the last batch of potatoes in the FDer I decided to drain the oil and put on the flush kit that I had purchased earlier. Links to this post. Sunday, August 28, 2016. Onion, bean, zucchini, corn, and tomatoes - o my! Harves...

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Growing Home: October 2015

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Gardening, self-sufficiency, homesteading, food preserves diary Blog documenting progress in transforming new property (50 acres - mostly wooded) into garden-farmette . Trying to become more self-sufficient and more self-aware. Sunday, October 25, 2015. Fall garden cleanup started. Picked the Sweet taters! I dug the potatoes in the big patch Friday evening. That ground was fairly wet and HEAVY! It was a lot of digging for not many taters! So I grabbed a bag and got some frozen strawberries (purchased) an...

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Growing Home: November 2016

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Gardening, self-sufficiency, homesteading, food preserves diary Blog documenting progress in transforming new property (50 acres - mostly wooded) into garden-farmette . Trying to become more self-sufficient and more self-aware. Sunday, November 27, 2016. Freeze-dryer cleanout, regular deer season prep and progress on hickory top. First cleaning of the freeze-dryers vacuum pump. See the gunk between the baffle plate and the body? That's pretty much what the entire inside looked like when I first opened it!

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Growing Home: November 2015

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Gardening, self-sufficiency, homesteading, food preserves diary Blog documenting progress in transforming new property (50 acres - mostly wooded) into garden-farmette . Trying to become more self-sufficient and more self-aware. Sunday, November 29, 2015. Getting ready for family thanksgiving at the farmhouse. First - some fixing. It looks like crap and isn't as strong as before, but its good enough for now. This fix let me continue chipping the slabs left over from milling. Of course, lots of the old woo...