Small Homestead

Apparently, I did not uncheck a check box and no one has been able to comment here. I have fixed the issue and wanted everyone to know that comments are welcome. Thanks to the folks over at VegBox Recipes Blog, for bringing this to my attention.

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St Patricks Day is tomorrow and I thought it would be fun to include some facts about it for today’s carnival. Did you know that the person who would become St Patrick was actually born in Britain?  At age 16, he was captured and sold into slavery to a sheep farmer. He escaped when he [...]

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The Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 (HR 875) is the government’s attempt to protect the public from food bourne illnesses and contaminants.  It sounds like a good thing and after the last year or so, we would seem to need additional regulations but be forewarned, the bill as it is written now will affect [...]

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A few days ago, I was posting pictures of snow.  For the last few days, temperatures are in the mid to upper 70s.  Virginia weather is always changeable but there have been big shifts this spring.  Yesterday a friend dropped by to plow the garden.  It has been 4 years since there has been a [...]

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Ok, I love the snow but snow and 10 degrees is just cold especially before the sun has really come up.   It was a brisk 10 degrees this morning when I went out to the furnace.  By my standards, anything under 20 is just too cold to deal with before I have had my coffee [...]

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Carnival of Homesteading

A major snowfall has swept over the east coast.  It’s caused travel problems and power outages from the deep South to Northern New England.  It is not too bad here on our small homestead.  We only got about 4 inches of snow.  Just enough to be pretty without having to worry about it [...]

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