Hey been busy on the homestead

Discussion in 'The Green Patch' started by Modus Operandi, Apr 28, 2020.


  1. Ok you apes, been abit busy on the homestead here lately. Went and planted 18 fruit trees (Golden Delicious, Red Delicous, Macintosh, Granny Smith, Honeycrisp apples, Peaches, Moonglow and Oriental Pears, 3 Blueberry Bushes, 3 tihorness BlackBerry, 2 Raspberry bushes. And built a few raised beds for a garden. Also lined the pantry in cedar and pine boards and started on a chicken coop.

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  2. Wildbilly

    Wildbilly Monkey+++

    You must eat Duke's Mayo with a spoon!:LOL:
     
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  3. IceRanger

    IceRanger Intellectus Refuticus

    I usually eat it with bacon, lettuce, and tomato.
     
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  4. Ura-Ki

    Ura-Ki Grampa Monkey

    I usually eat it with a Bacon Burger with a side of burger and cheese!
     
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  5. Alf60

    Alf60 Monkey+++

    That's about how much Dukes we keep on hand at any one time, 4 to 6 bottles. Looks fine to me.
     
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  6. Actually, they each hold pancake mix, general purpose flour, & sugar. The lids are labled with whats inside. We had a restaurant that would give us the containers for free and as a good Southerner, we always keep the plastic containers that food comes in for Tupperware, lol. Plus my brother only eats Miracle Whip.
     
  7. Wildbilly

    Wildbilly Monkey+++

    I was wondering why you had 6 containers of mayo, but only a couple of cans of most other food items. Then again, mayo is a major part of the Southern diet, my Father ate it with crackers. We keep plastic containers too, my sisters are already fighting over Mothers set and she's still with us. Did y'all have sets of matching jelly glasses when you were a kid?
     
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  8. Ain't just southerners that saved. My folks were early teenagers in 1929 and farm kids to boot. They always saved. We didn't have jelly jar glasses cause we didn't buy much jelly, Mom and .sisters made it and put it up in Mason (or Ball) canning jars, sometimes with rubber rings and zinc lids, sometimes in repurposed jars from purchased food.
     
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  9. Wildbilly

    Wildbilly Monkey+++

    Sometimes the only set of matching glasses in the house were the Mason jars.;)
     
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  10. Gator 45/70

    Gator 45/70 Monkey+++

    Looking good Modus !!!!
     
  11. That isn't the whole pantry supply. That is only whats up for photos, opsec and all. There is quite a bit put back already. And those are #10 cans as well.
     
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  12. Coop is finished except for trim and two small doors. Next up are two storage buildings and a deck. One is going to be used for food storage (16x8 insulated and climate controlled), the other for emergency housing of family (10 people in a 16x16 with bunk beds). It's not the Ritz Carlton but beats a tent esp in the winter.

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  13. chelloveck

    chelloveck Diabolus Causidicus

    It looks like a chicken Taj Mahal. Just the thing for producing chicken tikka marsala on the wing. ;)

    Job well done!
     
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  14. Thanks for the compliment. There are only 13 chickens for now with room for expansion. I have had people tell me that the coop was big, but the reason why I wanted a high ceiling is to let summer heat rise. In the winter i can hang sheet plastic to reduce heat loss and the polycarbonate let's in more light to help the chickens to lay more eggs (more light for longer duration, more eggs). The guillitine door has a rope that reached to my moms porch so she can let them out and doesn't have to walk far due to her health.
     
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  15. chelloveck

    chelloveck Diabolus Causidicus

    Add some guttering to the roof, and pipe to a water butt with self feeding watering nozzles saves having to constantly refill the chooks' water supply.



    or something like this....



    Am not sure how severe your winters are, but some kind of passive solar system may be an option to help keep the chooks comfortable, and save on feed used simply by the chooks to keep warm.

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  16. Gator 45/70

    Gator 45/70 Monkey+++

    Yeah man, That's a first class chicken shack right there,Excellent workmanship!
     
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