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What can you grow indoors for food, spice or medicine. Most any herb Peppers -turn into little trees Curry Leaf Tree Kaffir Lime Sprouts Nine Vegetables Fruits Grasses for fodder and juicing Salad greens Tomatoes  /www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/winter-tomatoes.aspx Plant of the Week  Elaeagnus x ebbingei – A Plant for all Reasons ReNeGaDe PiG!  and moving animals from […]

Reasons To Grow Fodder  For Your Animals or Sprouts for You: Growing fodder uses less water Less water is needed as compared to growing it in the ground. Water can be recirculated through the system Water can be saved and used to water plants. Feed cost is reduced. A 50 pound sack of feed can make […]

Things I forgot to talk about last week: Morel and shaggy mane mushrooms. New app for mushroom identification:  http://www.amazon.com/NATURE-MOBILE-Mushrooms-PRO/dp/B00AC1Y9KE/ref=pd_sim_mas_1 There is a free version.  I really like having this app on my kindle. I got motivated again to start and try to identify mushrooms.  I read something that really helped me.  It said to try […]

http://thepaleomama.com/2013/11/how-im-healing-cavities-without-dentistry/ http://stupideasypaleo.com/2013/11/27/kombucha-recipes-for-the-holiday-pomegranate-and-cranberry/  Kombucha Brining Turkey and my Paleo Thanksgiving Corned venison What? Every year I try a little something different with the Thanksgiving turkey.  This year I did a couple of things different.  I just had a small 11 # turkey from work,. I brined it overnight with water, salt sugar, bay leaves, lemons, cracked […]

 This is the real #43.  My dyslexic brain uploaded an older episode Sunday night.  I am sorry for any inconvenience it may have caused anyone.  I deleted that and am resubmitting.  Thanks for your patience. One Year To An Organized Life   Used books starting at less than $5 including shipping   http://www.amazon.com/One-year-organized-life/dp/1606711709/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1387138922&sr=8-6&keywords=one+year+to+an+organized+life   Reviews […]

CONTACT DIVINIA divinia.featherly@gmail.com Link to Paul Staments  The Future is Fungi http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cwLviP7KaAc Who needs Obamacare – try the natural Pharmacy I buy herbs, but want to grow my own.  There are some companies that sell herbs with nothing in them except fillers or something that isn’t even listed. This one is an overview of some […]

I have a special treat today.  An interview with Cris Cantin.  Cris is a homesteader that lives on a 1/4 acre in Wisconsin.  She raises most of her own vegetables, meat rabbits and chickens.  She was nice enough to be interviewed and share a recipe and pics of her Rabbit Taj Mahal.  There is also […]

http://ed.ted.com/lessons/richard-st-john-the-power-of-passion This week I will talk about update on goats in the ICU.  The  2 babes are back on pasture and looking fat and healthy.  Then my male Boer went down with parasites.  This seems to be an ongoing battle.  He is so thin, he may not make it.  We  put him on the oak leaf […]

Sauerkraut, Saving Money at the Grocery Store, Making Corned Beef Sauerkraut I made another batch of sauerkraut   I have been slicing it with my kitchen knife and haven’t been really happy with it.  So I ordered a cabbage slicer from LEM. This thing can grate a whole head of cabbage.  I like that because I don’t […]

Last week I tried to fry up some ripe plantain (cooking bananas) . I used to do it all the time in Hawaii.  But it as been so many years I kind of forgot how.  I floured them up with gluten free flour.  First mistake; and had the heat a little hot – 2nd mistake. […]

  Ancient food preservation Curing meat the Old Fashioned Way Cooling Your Home Sunchokes Curry Leaf Tree Permaculture http://housealive.org/natural-building/youtube-videos/ http://www.cobprojects.info/cob_houses/cob_houses.htm http://www.thefreelibrary.com/%22Root+cellaring%22+in+the+hot+%26+humid+South.-a064780543 http://www.countryfarm-lifestyles.com/smoking-meat.html http://www.hurherald.com/cgi-bin/db_scripts/articles?Action=user_view&db=hurheral_articles&id=13393 http://photos.oregonlive.com/photo-essay/2013/08/method_of_freeze-drying_potato.html http://www.motherearthnews.com/real-food/preserving-food-zmaz70ndzgoe.aspx?PageId=1#axzz2f15VChkO http://www.countryfarm-lifestyles.com/curing-ham.html

On the podcast I discuss the many uses of bamboo. Ideas on how to grow it and I give some great links for learning more. http://www.thigpentrailbamboo.com/resources/permaculture/ http://permaculturenews.org/2009/01/31/bamboo-in-permaculture-design/ http://bamboofarmingusa.com/How-to-Plant.html http://www.bamboocraft.net/gallery/ What is CL in goats and sheep? The herb heartsease and how to use it.

I would like to share some very easy things you can do to change your everyday meals into awesome meals.  When I was younger I loved making fancy recipes and baked goods.  And my family loved to eat it.  But I really hated the Ho Hum day to day, bargain basement cooking.  Thank God I […]

Some ideas for forage for meat production rabbits. from Rise and Shine Know you poisonous and edible plants. http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.echocommunity.org/resource/collection/E66CDFDB-0A0D-4DDE-8AB1-74D9D8C3EDD4/Tropical_Rabbit_Production.pdf Make sure they get enough protein with foods like alfalfa, comfrey, or sweet potato vine. http://appenzellfarm.com/apzl/Rabbits.html Ideas and links for your fall garden. http://www.thevegetablegarden.info/ My computer graveyard.  Ideas on repairing or building simple system http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL3AM0zIdJU  

Today we talk about raising rabbits. This first episode is the start of a short series. I answer the questions:  Why raise rabbits? What are the best rabbits for meat production? What kind of cages do they need? And I give you some interesting information about rabbits  – the woo woo side. I also discuss how […]