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12/28/09, 02:51 PM
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What homesteading endeavor would you like to learn more about?
This year I would love to learn to make soap. I have been intrigued by this for years and want to experience the process at least a few times. What do you want to learn more about?
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12/28/09, 02:53 PM
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make soap and learn to spin.
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12/28/09, 02:58 PM
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Heirloom vegetables to grow in western Arkansas.
I've always wanted to learn to knit socks and mittens. Not sure how to go about that though. I wonder if it can be learned from a book.
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12/28/09, 03:08 PM
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how to homestead on very small acreage. Where we moved for the j-o-b, land is too expensive to have much of it.
I got a good book on that topic for christmas. It's called "the backyard homestead." Probably not new information for most folks here, but a different perspective on how much land you need to be self-sustaining. It is put out by Storeys.
Cindyc.
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12/28/09, 03:09 PM
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Learn more about gardening
master soap making--I can make regular lye soap, but would love to do handmilled
quilt more
learn to tan my rabbit hides
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12/28/09, 03:23 PM
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Probably cheesemaking. I've never tried my hand at it.
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12/28/09, 03:25 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PinkBat
Heirloom vegetables to grow in western Arkansas.
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Here's a link to Baker Creek Seeds:
http://rareseeds.com/
I'm thinking about ordering from them, this year, because they're located fairly near to our climate. My hope is that, if things will grow well there, they'll grow well, here.
I don't think my climate is much different from yours.
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12/28/09, 03:26 PM
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Learning to spin is my top one, and learning to make more complicated types of cheese.
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12/28/09, 03:27 PM
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The list keeps growing.
soap making
seed saving
season extension for the garden
wild foraging
cheese making
fermenting foods
and many others. There is always something new to learn and do.
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12/28/09, 03:27 PM
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Cheese making and saving seeds.
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12/28/09, 03:29 PM
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Perpetually curious!
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Master the art of foraging, learn to make crafts and potions from/with herbs (wreaths, soaps, candles, herbed vinegars, etc.), and become better at container gardening since I fear that I what I'll have this year due to moving the beginning of May and not knowing if we'll be able to buy a place right away or rent for another while yet.
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12/28/09, 03:42 PM
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Canning meats
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12/28/09, 03:48 PM
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Uh, everything.
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12/28/09, 03:54 PM
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Canning Crazy
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Soap making
Cheese making
crocheting socks
herbal remedies/homeopathic remedies
foraging
pressure canning
Lol..I have a lot to learn!
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12/28/09, 03:57 PM
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I'd like to do more sewing and some quilting. I have not mastered the rotary cutter.
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12/28/09, 04:23 PM
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I have always wanted to learn how to spin and weave cloth. There is a crafts shop in a nearby town that offers lessons in both and I am always so tempted to take some lessons.
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12/28/09, 04:29 PM
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I am going to master that sewing machine this year. I have always been a little bit afraid of it. LOL.
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12/28/09, 04:34 PM
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oh, just call me Nicole
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Canning, pressure and water bath
Dehydrating
Knitting and/or crocheting
foraging
and some other stuff but I can't remember what they are lol
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12/28/09, 04:35 PM
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Family Jersey Dairy
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I need to figure out how to tell the electric company where to stick it. We all need to get them off our backs. so windmill generator, solar panels, hamsters on a tredmill, whatever it takes Thanks marc.
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12/28/09, 04:40 PM
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Weaving is something I'd like to learn.
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