If you have never had Moose meat you are missing out on something great, In “The Maine Woods”, Henry David Thoreau described its taste as, “like tender beef, with perhaps more flavor; sometimes like veal”. That is as close as a description of it as I will try. Moose meat ...
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I got an email from one of our first followers asking about the red wiggler worms. The worms are doing great. I read all about what needs to be done to take care of worms but I still made a bunch of rookie mistakes. I put too much food in ...
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The title pretty much says it all. I absolutely hate moving with every ounce of my being. I really need to help out on fixing up the house we were renting from my father but this move will never end. I am sore tired, grumpy and there is never enough ...
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It’s pretty hard to kill a sourdough starter but it can be done if you are not careful. With the move one of the things I kind of forgot about was our sourdough starter. I did get a good loaf of bread out of it but alas it was tossed ...
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Sorry about the break in posting. Since the 25th all we have really done is move and work on getting our old house ready to be sold. It’s taken a lot longer than I was hoping it would take but with Andrea having a hurt shoulder she is not able ...
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So far we have found at least 7 apple trees on the property. Weldon is excited that he has one of the trees right outside his window so each day he will be able to look and watch them grow. He wants to put up a tent and wait under ...
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Worms arrived on Thursday June 24th in the afternoon. It took a day longer than it was supposed to and upon arrival there were a lot less worms than were advertised. It was supposed to be 2 lbs of worms if there was ¾ of a lb I was lucky. ...
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It is official, we are now the proud owners of a 2600 square foot farm house built in 1908 on 9.6 acres of land. The closing itself only took 36 minutes. We signed our paperwork, picked up the boys and went to the new homestead. It has a majestic Maine ...
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I’ve been going to the new homestead almost every day for the past week. Either a short trip with the boys to explore the woods or mow some of the piles of grass I should just rake up. Not going inside the house because it isn’t ours yet. Today I ...
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I've been looking for weeks for a way to get these worms local but nobody I could find has them. All of the bait shops have nightcrawlers and other types of worms but no red wigglers. I could have gone to a local farmer and seen if I could go ...
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