Muscovey Ducks – My Final Verdict

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Interview at InTheRabbitHole.com

Today I’ll be talking instead of writing. I was recently interviewed by the great folks over at InTheRabbitHole.com, Aaron and Jason. Here is their post regarding my interview: Episode 101: The Season II Finale by AARON FRANKEL on MAY 12, 2013 in URBAN SURVIVAL PODCAST EPISODES    Episode 101: The Season II Finale [ 1:23:41 | 38.81 MB   Hide Player | Play […]

Home Canning – Sources for Items to Can

Not everyone has an acre of garden beds producing bushels of produce daily, or pastures for cows, goats, pigs or any other living protein source. Some of use are living in town with barely enough room for a small bed of basil… Where do we find quality foods to preserve via canning? Honestly, there are […]

Canning Corned Beef (Plus, a Corned Beef Hash Recipe)

(This is slightly modified from a post I made last week at InTheRabbitHole.com’ s forums. While I do post on lots of other forums, I call their forum “Home”, and end up posting a lot there. They have a tight-knit community established, and while they don’t have a massive number of registered users like some […]

Urbanstead Update March 2013

It’s been a while so I thought I’d update whats going on in my urban backyard “farm”. I like to write these out from time to time to show you what I’ve accomplished, as well as to track where I’ve been. My memory isn’t what it used to be, so this works well as a […]

Saving Lost Skills – Pioneer Family Days at Heathcote Botanical Gardens

I received an email from my wife’s aunt, Nan, who happens to be Heathcote Botanical Gardens’s Educational Coordinator. Her email was in regards to yesterday’s post on harvesting meat rabbits. She mentioned that she would be willing to run the camera for me to better show the process (one of two offers I received – […]