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Tillage Radish Cover Crop Update Five
Here’s update number five in my Tillage Radish cover crop experiment. Winter is in full swing at the end of December. The radish foliage has pretty much died completely and the tubers are starting to rot although the bigger ones are … Continue reading
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Tagged chickens, country, country life, country living, country skills, cover crop, farm, farm animal, farm animals, garden, gardening, growing, homestead, homesteading, mini-farm, permaculture, tillage radish
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Merry Christmas from the Braley’s!
Merry Christmas to all our friends both old and new. Our family has been knocked down by the flu these last several days. Yet, we are still very grateful for our many blessings including a warm country home and the … Continue reading
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Tagged country, country life, country living, family, homestead, homesteading
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Pig Butchering Results
The results are in and so is the meat! This week we picked up our pork from the processor. We got a fairly good spread for the size of our pig, and all-in-all we are very pleased. He was on the … Continue reading
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Tagged butchering, carcass, country, country life, country living, country skills, family, farm, farm animal, farm animals, hanging weight, hog, hog butchering, homestead, lard, lard rendering, live weight, market weight, mini-farm, on the hoof, pig, pig butchering, pig processing, pig weight, render
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Hog Wrestling (a.k.a. Delivering Pig to Butcher)
This week we took the pig to the local processor to get butchered. What an ordeal it was. First some background: “Stripe” the pig was born in April, we bought him as a feeder pig in June and we’re butchering … Continue reading
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Tagged butchering, country, country life, country living, country skills, equipment, family, farm, farm animal, farm animals, hog, hog butchering, homestead, homesteading, mini-farm, pig
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Remembering Past Chicken Butchering Days
It has been quiet on the mini-farm this week. We’re getting ready to gather the annual Christmas tree and preparing the pig for going to the butcher next week. In the quiet of winter coming on, I’ve been reminiscing on … Continue reading
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Tagged chicken butchering, chicken butchering eqiupment, chicken butchering table, chicken killing cone, chicken scalder, country, country life, country living, country skills, farm, farm animals, fresh butcherd chicken, homemade, homestead, homesteading, mini-farm, on-farm butchering, pastured poultry, whizbang chicken plucker
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Tillage Radish Cover Crop Update Four
Here’s update number four in my Tillage Radish experiment this year. The pictures below were taken last week. We’ve had many nights in the low 30’s, high 20’s but still some fairly warm days and nights for this time of … Continue reading
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Tagged bed, country life, country living, cover crop, food, garden, gardening, homestead, mini-farm, nitrogen, permaculture, plant, soil, soil improvement, tillage radish, weeds
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