Buying new seeds each year is very costly and perhaps not necessary if you have left over seed from last year, or even five years ago. This discussion focuses on seed companies and proven/disproven results, seed storage and of course making money by saving your own non-hybrid heritage seeds. Marketing ideas are also discussed.
I was reviewing a very old medical book dated 1910 –1920, which covered the state of the art treatments for home care and identifying the infectious diseases of the times. It is scary, but it does offer some prudent suggestions we need to consider today.
I thought I’d share some snow pictures after this recent storm and added it to my “Gardeners Notebook” for future events. Another way of looking at it is: What we do in the winter?
The Washington Post –on line- said that the Washington DC area had the most snow fall in the past six years. For us mountain dwellers my back door measurement was 14 inches this morning, and my neighbor’s weather news from Roanoke was a predictable 22 inches. God Bless the snow, we desperately need it for […]
Stocking up to my mind implies an earlier part of this century when we lived on the farm and did not get to town, perhaps once or twice a year. There was no Wal*Mart ™, no grocery stores for quick run in and buy. Fast food eateries were a no concept. Doctors made house calls […]
Last week we discussed my herbal approach to building the body’s immune system with herbs- if you are sick-a time proven approach through thousands of years. This week we will focus on more proven ways to build your immune system while preparing for more and worse flu in the years to come.
Last November 2, 2008, I wrote an article on flu and I am surprised that since so many people are dropping like flies at this time, infected with who knows what flu symptom viruses, they did not go back in the archives to re-read on this subject. I am writing this article in response to […]
Once you have constructed your poultry house you will have to furbish it. To the frugal minded is the over all cost justified? The answer might be is the new car justified? The criteria is that the poultry house will be giving back to the owner, over years and years, one of the best fertilizers, […]
