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The Ducks Start Paying Rent
The ducks are laying about 4 eggs a day these days. That’s their maximum output, since we have 4 female ducks. We also have 5 laying chicken hens. We haven’t been finding many of their eggs lately,...
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Surprise! Fall Piggies!
Look! It’s like spring time has come 6 months early. We have a pregnant sheep, a hen laying on 16 eggs, and 4 baby piggies have arrived at The Wallow. There are four of them. They are Hampshire/Duroc...
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One New Chicken
We’ve had a mama chicken sitting on a clutch of eggs. At first I counted 18 eggs underneath her. A few days later I counted 16 eggs and figured I must have miscounted. Right before leaving for Alchemy,...
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Daily Farm Chores
I love morning chores around The Wallow. They get me up and moving. I love having animals to care for, because they constantly pull me towards motion and life, both when I can most enjoy it and when I...
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Do We Feed Our Animals Crap?
{Note: As a result of last week’s popular 21 Things To Stop Saying Unless You Hate Fat People I got a lot of new followers. ::waves:: Hi! While I write about fat acceptance often, I also write about...
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{Review} The Lost Arts of Hearth & Home
The Lost Arts of Hearth & Home, The Happy Luddite’s Guide to Domestic Self-Sufficiency by Ken Albala and Rosanna Nafziger sounded right up my alley! Hearth, home, luddite, domestic,...
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There’s Always Room For Another Baby
Wondering what’s been going on at The Wallow lately? Bask in the cuteness: Joshua and I kind of made a deal: the ducks for the dog. The menagerie we have around here can seem like a bit much sometimes....
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Wrapping Up The Pigs for 2012
Normally our pig-raising for the year would be over in September, but this year we opted to do another round of pigs going into the winter. They had a great gain rate, and here we are at the end of...
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Ups and Downs with Our Sheep
On January 13th, one of our ewes, Big Mama, gave birth to two lambs, a ram and a ewe. It was cold and rainy, but we try not to baby our animals so we didn’t do anything extra other than make sure they...
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Homemade Reese’s Peanut Butter Bars
It’s been kind of heavy around here lately with mental illness, fat activism, and whatnot. How about some plain old deliciousness instead? Now that my fat acceptance writing will primarily end up at...
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Bit by Bit, Signs of Spring
Spring has snuck up on me a bit. Last year I had seeds spouting by April 10th. This year my beds aren’t ready, the compost isn’t screened yet, and I haven’t stuck a single seed in the ground. Oops! I’m...
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How Much Manure Does A Pig Make
By Joshua Bardwell – originally posted in September 2009 at Jack-Booted Liberal. In my previous post on composting pig manure, I discussed the type of composting system Issa and I plan to use. A...
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Harvested Carrots Taste Like Carrots
By Joshua Bardwell, originally posted in November 2009 at Jackbooted Liberal. In late August, I planted a second crop of carrots, spinach, lettuce, and collards, all of which I think are crops that do...
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Wood: Cords and Pounds
By Joshua Bardwell, originally posted in February 2010 at Jackbooted Liberal. The truck has started to pay off. Issa and I have brought home two truck-loads of wood, to become firewood for later. The...
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Chickens Come Home … To Roost?
Here’s Joshua’s post from when we got our first chickens in May 2010, originally posted at Jack-Booted Liberal. Issa and I got up this morning and drove about an hour and a half south to an Amish...
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By Joshua Bardwell, originally posted in May 2010 at Jack-Booted Liberal. Last fall, in anticipation of raising pigs, we plowed up a section of the field and put down a seed mixture consisting of...
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How to Make Chicken Stock
By Joshua Bardwell, originally posted in December 2010 at Jack-Booted Liberal. Some time back, I found myself not wanting to eat meat that had been raised in oppressive conditions. At home, I have...
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Reclaiming Mason Jars
by Joshua Bardwell One of the first things I learned when I started canning was that I didn’t have nearly enough mason jars. With a garden of any decent size, it’s easy to fill as many quarts as you...
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By Joshua Bardwell, originally posted in June 2010 at Jack-Booted Liberal. Today, Issa and I mucked out the pigs’ stall for real. She had cleaned out the bedding before, but it was in need of a...
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Making Strawberry Preserves
By Joshua Bardwell, originally posted in May 2011 at Jack-Booted Liberal. Today, I’m making strawberry preserves! A caveat: Preserving/canning is easy and basically anybody can do it. That being said,...
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