Was watching GA on ABC and they were doing a tomato segment then on preserving pasta sauce and they showed the expensive machine to make it then he said but I don’t do that, he cut up his toms and with the end of a wooden spoon just stuffed them in skin and all till it was full put lid on the said put in a pot with water up to just under rim bring…[Read more]

my dehydrator was an 86 landcruiser till the gear box went now its an 96 tarago. all you do is wind up all the windows with a small half centimetre gap put trays on seats and turn or stir twice a day bring in at night only draw back is if you need to use the car. most stuff dries in a day so I plan my drying round my car use.

update to post below a neighbour today told me his mum uses the oil from the seeds as a moisturiser so I just googled that and it is very good apparently for dry skin so there you go you could make your jam or jelly or and crush the discarded seeds to make moisturiser, thanks Bel for bring that to our attention I always looked at them as a nasty…[Read more]

They look like briar Roses a weed in Victoria not sure if you can cook with them.

Edit: thanks to google
Sweet Briar rose hip jam.
2 c Hips; before seeding
1 1/2 c Sugar
1 c Water
2 tb Lemon juice
Prepare hips (deseed) and measure 1 cup. Boil sugar and water 4 minutes, add hips and lemon juice and boil, covered, 15 minutes, uncover and boil 5…[Read more]

pancakes, muffins, cake mix, we even dried blueberries to add to the muffin mix (had access to a lot of blueberry’s one year.) but the best by far and only premix we still make is scrambled egg mix with dried tomato, spring onion, mixed herbs and egg. We dry it all separate then mix in the jar, have added other veg too but find the above mix is…[Read more]

I have done this thread here about it I must advise storing in glass jars as mice rodents and naïve marsupial carnivores all find it so irresistible they will chew through anything (ie plastic) to get to it.
we have made pre mixes with it but find you need a little longer time soaking for the mix to rehydrate easier to mix egg/water leave it sit…[Read more]

I just brought a heap of random short end wool scrapes for $5 from my fav oppie am just crocheting them all together into a giant granny square afghan lap rug not sure who will get it for Chrissie when its finished will see who it suits and if it doesn’t then I will secret Santa it.

Hi all again have been looking heaps into this on the net and thought some maybe interested in an article by world wide wattle were they are looking at building a food forest for chooks to naturally scavenge there food as part of this they trailed edible wattle seeds to judge which were best suited.
article…[Read more]

Hi Have some Gypsy and know 2 others that have yhem if what colour/standard is not what your looking for we are near Wangaratta Pm if we are close enough also can get details of someone near Shep

I saw some (pack of 25) at our Woolworths we are in Vic but our town pop would be round 25,000 so maybe the big stores also stock them.

We had meat rabbits till very recently but had a mixo outbreak that wipe out all our rabbits very quickly from first death till vet results a week later all others had died, all deaths did not look like mixo just one morning our favourite rabbit was rolling round the cage floor when miss 4 went down to feed and let them out cause it had been cold…[Read more]

their paddock has two strings of electric fences but one goat has learned that it is solar powered and only has 3 good shocks then needs a few hours to recharge in the mean time the shock is quite tolerable and just pushes through the fence and then the others follow, today with no real sun at all I watched said goat testing the fence then push…[Read more]

Duck found a home today through the local shop today I mentioned they were available when I picked up our mail and went to work got a call from the shop to say someone higher up the valley was looking for some ducks and he came after work to pick them up, so good out come in the end.

My goats recently raided my vegie patch :angry: the only thing they didnt touch was the nurstersums (spt?) i grow these for the leaves and flowers only thing left, also didnt eat the capsium leaves but did eat (well chewed and spat out) the capsicums, they killed the last of our summer veg and all of the winter veg also the pumpkins that were…[Read more]

hi I send a pm about the rooster if you still wish to rehome him

is he still looking for a new home

how does it handle fire could a serise of small bon fires char off the weed and seeds? WARNING some plants example blackberry grow back stronger after fire as the fire changes the pH of the soil so look into that first. could also use a flame weeder.

If you add lavander or orange/manderin peel to vinegar (a lot of it) and leave it a while you get lovely smelling vinegar you can use to add to rinse water (dishes or clothes washing) or when cleaning :hijacked: :whistle:

A friend has a friend who breeds horses in Mansfield which is close and is responsable who is going to buy him, we were in the process of electrifing our fences but the pony knew the wire was not live so just riped trough it

i would love to know how to change the pass word to our wirless modem i got a $300 over use bill from my to teens from them using it on their mobiles for facebook which is free when they have no credit but uses credit when they have it so to save their phone credit they facebook of the home internet!!! so not happy!!!! if i change the modem…[Read more]