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 […]
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Mailbag May 2, 2013 Quail vs Ducks or Chickens
Yesterday, I received a comment from a regular reader, Darren from Green Change. com, and I thought I should expand on my reasoning. “Just a quick comment to thank you for all your quail articles. I didn’t think quail were worth messing about with (small eggs and little fiddly bodies for meat!), but you’ve managed […]
Quail Week Day 4 – Quail Housing
Day four in my week long series about quail. I’ve written about my setup and my brooder live video feed, I’ve talked about my incubator, how I built it and the incubation process, as well as talking about brooders, feeders, the importance of water, and how to make a self waterer. Today we talk about […]
Quail Week Day 1 – Overview of My Setup And a live Video Feed
I have most of my Coturnix Quail setup operational now, so I wanted to commit a week to describing my setup, go over the parts that I made, how I made them, and why I decided to make my own bits and pieces rather than buy them. I’ve mentioned many times how I favor quail […]
Improving Soil
This is a follow-up from yesterday’s post, DIY Self Watering Containers. When I first started gardening here in Florida, the sugar sand had me beat. Too loose to hold anything, it would take many tons of organic matter to improve just my back yard. I eventually opted to use raised beds, and make my own […]
Get What You Need
“You can’t always get what you want But if you try sometimes you just might find You just might find You get what you need” “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” is a song by the Rolling Stones on their 1969 album Let It Bleed. Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, it was […]
Smoked Rabbit as a Grab n Go snack
I work on the road, and have some tricky diet requirements. I eat “Paleo”, meaning that I consume zero grains, legume,s or refined sugars. Try finding fast food that doesn’t have any of that. So I tend to carry things along to get me through the day. Nuts, fruits, sliced cucumbers, or rabbit jerky have […]
Trust No One, Even Me
Let’s call this one the FloridaHillbilly Official Disclaimer Post. Yesterday, I posted about making cheese from rabbit milk. I don’t know if I
Rabbit Milk Cheese
Life is full of patterns, many of them are simply our idle brains putting together completely unrelated facts and trying to find some relationship between them. Everyone does it, some better than others. I’m not one of the more observant ones most of the time, but when I see a “pattern” developing, I usually cannot […]
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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 […]