Remember when I wrote about my volunteer papaya tree? How about them tasting like vomit? Blech! Well, as my papayas grow out and ripen, I’ve been cutting, smashing, or busting them open for the chickens to eat. The seem to like it, and that’s fine with me! At least I’m getting something useful out of […]
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Revisiting My choice in animals for “Urbansteading”
This is a repost of one of my first articles. I’ve gotten a lot of questions as to why I’ve chosen these, so thought I’d repost it to get it out there again. Living 5o feet from another family makes certain choices VERY important. Your TV volume, height of your fence, amount of clothing […]
Dehydrators – A Self Reliance Tool
I was looking for a subject tonight, and realized I’d never written about my dehydrators, though I’ve written many articles that included them as an important background player. The list of my articles that use a dehydrator includes: Drying and Storing Sweet Peppers Fire Roasted Coconut Dried Chili Lime Papaya Chips Making your own All […]
animals, chickens, equipment, how-to, Muscovy ducks, projects, self sufficiency, skills, state of mind
FloridaHillbilly – The Daily Process
I originally started writing this as a means of getting things off my chest. As I started to develop a few readers, I realized some of my BS was actually entertaining, possibly even educational. This has evolved into a
animals, cooking, food preservation, how-to, Knives, meat, Muscovy ducks, Paleo, recipes, reviews, self sufficiency, skills
Muscovy Ducks – Yard to Table
For the faint of heart, and/or the vegans. Be warned that this post includes descriptions and video of animals being dispatched for food. If you don’t like the thought of facing your food, don’t bother to read any further. I’m not writing this to make friends, or enemies. I’m writing this because some folks want […]
‘Tis the Season…..Wabbit (Breeding) Season!
The weather has eased away from the oppressive heat that makes having a fur coat unpleasant, and being pregnant downright miserable. So I opt to stop breeding my rabbits in the heat of summer. Since the weather has eased, approximately 30 days ago, I bred two of my does to my AlTex Buck. AlTex is […]
Ideas on Small Scale Pork Production in an Urban Environment
First, let me state that this may offend some of you. I don’t really care. Not that I’m trying to be antagonistic, I just don’t lose sleep if something I say as a statement of what I believe is possible offensive. This is all theory and conjecture at this point, and even if I am […]
A Failure on my part – Overgrown gardens
Florida is home to a fantastic array of flora and fauna. We have artichokes to zoysia grass, and armadillos to zebra mussels. And most of it flourishes at one point or another during the year. As far south as we live, we rarely get a frost, and I’ve yet to see a heavy killing frost […]