Making our own flour has been fun! I purchase two of the ingredients, the oat, and tapioca flour is just necessary to buy pre ground, in my opinion. I did find grinding the sorghum, over buying it ground gives our sourdough a ton more flavor!
Sorghum flour
We did try a kitchen aid attachment for grinding grains before this one and it did not work well. This Nutrimill works exceptionally well.
Jasmin rice
I just use the rice that we buy in bulk and eat daily. It grinds down nice and smooth.
This way we cut out some of the out sourced processing and saving money at the same time!
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I don’t know about anyone else but here with ten laying hens I get a lot of eggs!! What are we doing with the shells?!?
Building up!
Having to bake and or cook anything my family of five eats in a day can have a girl using up a lot of eggs. I’ve been known to use two dozen in a day easy. Luckily I have good laying hens. With all those eggshells I had to find a new way to recycle them.
We definitely add some of them to the compost pile.
Last year I had an issue with slugs! 🐌 They were eating a lot of my flowers mostly, but I fought them in my gardens all year.
After some research I learned eggshell crumbs can detour slugs because they are tiny and sharp and slugs don’t like to slide across them!
Here’s what I have done. Through the winter I saved all my eggshells in a plastic bag in the freezer. These build up fast!! Once the bag is full they get baked!
Using a cookie sheet covered with parchment paper I spread out the shells.
Bake them at 375 degrees for about twenty minutes until they are crumbly.
After baking just transfer them to a food processor and grind them down into tiny bits.
Winter stock pile for this years garden
Then just sprinkle them around your plants to both detour slugs and add nutrients to the soil!
I am so excited to have a possible answer for the slugs!! Picking them off one by one is a lot of work!!
I will be back with more tips and tricks! I’d love to hear yours as well!!
Today we are going to try out papaya seeds to use as an anti parasitic.
Lots of seed in just one!
The directions that I have just say to scoop them out and separate the stringy flesh from the seeds. This proves to be kind of a pain but if anyone has a handy way to separate the two I’d love to hear it! I just rinsed the seeds and picked the flesh all out while it was in the water.
Then just mix the seeds with honey! 🍯
We use a ton of honey!!
Well we are going to start taking “one tablespoon” of this mixture a day. I’ll come back with our results in a few weeks!!
Any tips, tricks, or additions to add I’d love to hear!!
It’s time to start those seeds here in Michigan!! What are we using to do so?!? I’ve tried so many different things!! Ive always just used “seed starter” and I’ve always had about a 75 percent germination success rate.
This year I went to buy my seed starter and accidentally grabbed vermiculite! Ooops 🤣
Then I got to reading that you can mix it with coconut core, and it would help the starter mix! So instead of going back and getting more seed starter I just ordered coconut coir.
You just mix the two, I used a 2:1 ratio. 2 parts coconut coir and 1 part vermiculite.
Freshly planted seeds
I went from a 75 percent germination rate to a 95 percent!!! I am so very excited!!
Living whole can produce a lot of food scraps. This can make for a lot of compost! If you live in the city composting can be much more difficult. Space is an issue, smell is an issue, and let’s face it it’s not pretty either!
I like to find other things I can do with my food scraps. Although some does definitely go into my compost pile! I would like to share what I do with food waste that is “useable” beyond compost.
Thumper gets excited for his carrots 🥕
Here we feed a lot of food scraps to the rabbits or the chickens. Our rabbits produce most of the fertilizer we use for our gardens. With just three rabbits I get a ton of fertilizer!
Rosey wants pets 😊
Other ideas for using carrot scraps include regrowing the tops for edible greens, making vegetable stock, adding to compost, or chopping down and using as a nutrient rich mulch.
When I met my husband I lived on a six acre plot that I was trying to turn into a hobby farm. I was finding it was very hard to do that on my own though! We then made the decision to join our families. With that decision we moved all my animals, kids, and gardening stuff to his place, so we are now in town on a “double lot”. Pictured is our resolution for the chickens. We used the already there privacy fence as two walls and built on!
I wanted to show this as it is a great way to utilize an odd space in your yard!
My husband designed and built the feeder and nesting box and everything works wonderfully!! The nesting box is temporary until we get the coop built.
It’s made out of all recycled wood that we just stained to match.
The only item we purchased was the steel for the roof. We ran out of time last fall, but we will be adding electricity and an actual “coop” this summer. Come back later to check out what we built!!
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