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Caring for Your Eggs - Tilly's Nest
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Stories from Our Nest. A Kid’s Guide to Keeping Chickens. Stories from Our Nest. A Kid’s Guide to Keeping Chickens. Caring for Your Eggs. January 2, 2012. January 24, 2016. From the brown egg on bottom clockwise: eggs from Tilly, Oyster Cracker, Dolly, Fifi and Feathers. You should get in the habit of checking for eggs at least twice a day; in the morning and afternoon. This helps to keep the eggs intact and clean. It also prevents hens from egg eating and can discourage broodiness. You can choose to gra...
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Brooks Hobby Farm: Football
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Corporate professionals by day and farmers by evening and weekend. The trials and joys of balancing work, family, gardening and raising animals in Clark County, WA. September 29, 2012. My friend Jana, whom I met when we were 5 years old and her family moved in next door to us, just had her second child. A little boy. Since they all live in Texas and I'm here in the PNW, I haven't met the little guy yet. They are coming up for a visit in a couple of weeks and I'm super excited! Here are the instructions .
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Brooks Hobby Farm: Traditional, Homemade Thanksgiving Dinner - Installment #8: Potato Rolls
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Corporate professionals by day and farmers by evening and weekend. The trials and joys of balancing work, family, gardening and raising animals in Clark County, WA. November 22, 2013. Traditional, Homemade Thanksgiving Dinner - Installment #8: Potato Rolls. The recipe comes from my Grandma Charlotte Emigh. She developed this bread recipe because she doesn't like bread that has a strong yeast taste. The recipe does use yeast, but the end result is mild. 1 1/2 cup warm water. 1 cup warm potatoes*. Flour a ...
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Brooks Hobby Farm: How to can carrots
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Corporate professionals by day and farmers by evening and weekend. The trials and joys of balancing work, family, gardening and raising animals in Clark County, WA. How to can carrots. I bet your first question is, why can carrots? Sure they are available at the store year-round. Sure they are cheap to buy. Sure you can also get canned carrots at the store. Ok, I think I just talked myself out of canning carrots - just kidding! I don't worry about the amount because I use whatever I have. 5 Start the wat...
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Brooks Hobby Farm: Root Veggie Recipes
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Corporate professionals by day and farmers by evening and weekend. The trials and joys of balancing work, family, gardening and raising animals in Clark County, WA. 1 Tbs olive oil. 1 lb soup meat, beef or lamb. 1 onion, chopped. 1 garlic cloves, diced. 1 heaping Tbs all purpose flour. 3 large carrots, sliced. 2 white potatoes, cubed. Feta cheese or blue cheese. 1/2 Tbs olive oil. 3 sprigs fresh rosemary. 1 5 lb roast. 1 Tbs olive oil. 1 can diced tomatoes. 3 potatoes, peeled and quartered. Pacific North...
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Brooks Hobby Farm: Funny Bee Story
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Corporate professionals by day and farmers by evening and weekend. The trials and joys of balancing work, family, gardening and raising animals in Clark County, WA. September 4, 2014. It's been a few years since we've had honey bees at our place. We've tried three times. Two were bought from the store and the third swarm adopted us. But I think that we don't have a warm enough place for them because every winter they die. That's not the funny part. Anyway, she asked "Do you have all your bees? I gave the...
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The Scrappy Housewife Cooks: Welcome and a GIVEAWAY!
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The Scrappy Housewife Cooks. Tuesday, January 10, 2012. Welcome and a GIVEAWAY! This Giveaway is now closed. Winner announced soon. Edited to add: Make sure you leave a separate comment for each thing you do. If you put them all in one comment it will only count as ONE entry even if you've done all 8. Make sure you don't miss out on getting those extra entries counted! The fact that I now have over 120 followers on Facebook. We thought we'd start with a Giveaway! I'm sure you're ok with that right? Come ...
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Brooks Hobby Farm: Butchering Lamb
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Corporate professionals by day and farmers by evening and weekend. The trials and joys of balancing work, family, gardening and raising animals in Clark County, WA. But I do get involved in the cut and wrap. Below are pictures of the steps after the animal is killed and field dressed. I word of warning, the pictures, while not gross [by my definition] are somewhat graphic. Quarter them. Yep, Jeremy is using a saws-all to quarter up the animal. Packaging. After the meat is all trimmed and ground, it g...
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