Goats

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DUCKLINGS

Making Raisins

I have decided that this blog will be about how I am trying to make, grow, or otherwise procure food. One of the things that has been frustrating me is that I throw away good. Frustrates me to no end. Yet I am trying to eat right and as I make new habits to eat more fruits and veggies I find that I sometimes let food get too old to eat. Now apples and veggies that get a little spongy can be cooked. They are great for adding to dishes.

Grapes are another matter. I don't normally cook grapes. So today before I threw out some grapes that were obviously past their prime I looked up on the handy dandy internet how to dehydrate grapes. I actually happen to have a dehydrator laying around so I pulled it. Washed the grapes and popped them in! Here is the site I found very helpful ---> dehydrate fruit

Now I just have to wait. One site siad that fruit that is dehydrating can take anywhere from 4-24 hours. I'll post the pictures back here of the raisins. Here are the grapes!

The fertilizers

I don't understand buying fertilizer. Just doesn't make sense to me, not with so many fertilizer produces here. I prefer to use what I have. So here are some of my fertilizer producers:



Here is Abby. She is an 8 year old percheron cross mare. She is 16.1 hh and about 1500 lbs. She produces a lot of manure.




Ike and Madison. These two are miniature horses. They don't do as well as Abby, but they do the best they can.









Cheyenne is my representative of the goat herd. She is a pygmy goat, all her herd mates are Nigerians.












And the flock that is on bug patrol., Well not in this photo obviously but will be come spring.