🧡 Hello Friends!

👩‍🌾 So, I'm going to attempt making homemade apple pie for the first time😆

💋 My question is, what are some secret ingredients or tips, to make the most amazing apple pie from scratch?

Thanks in advance! DM

Anybody have a recommendation on how to choose the best location for a house to be built? Not sure if there are professionals that are able to assist in the decision process.

I live in upper Minnesota, have a large circular concrete driveway, 40 forested acres with trails, a 1.5 acre lawn. I’m looking for something to help with snow removal (blower), working in the woods- removing/planting trees- potentially maintaining trails. I’m thinking of getting a zero turn for the lawn, but am considering toolcat, skid steer or tractor for snow blowing, and the other things mentioned. Does anyone have an opinion?

We live in central Oregon, oak Savana near Roseburg. We have 2 horses and we bed their stalls with cedar shavings. We use a trailer to dump the poo and shavings at different sites around our fairly large property to let naturally decay and compost.

I’ve noticed that even sites I used over a year ago have nothing growing on them. I would love to encourage grass (or any) growth on these sites. What do you think I could do on the cheep to amend aged horse poo and wood chips to encourage grass growth.

I haven’t tried just seeding them, assuming it will not take since nothing but mushrooms grow there now.

I'm peripherally associated with an employee of an environmental entity that has purchased a unit (sorry, but I can't mention any names) that supposedly will generate electricity. But the whole thing looks very "Rube Goldberg-ish" to me, with lots of very complex, very expensive machinery, computerized out the wazoo . . . and rather minimal documentation.

The minimal documentation scares me -- it appears that the unit may be more a 'government grant' machine, than an actual functional system.

So, I'm wondering, has anyone ever gotten such a system to actually work on a reliable, low maintenance basis?

Finally got the garlic planted today. This is one of the last garden jobs of the year here, aside from late harvests of greens and carrots.

I have a very limited yard to work with but I want to have a garden placed for the spring. What’s the smallest / most compact way to have a garden? I think large vining plants like melons, pumpkins, and gourds are out of the question for me but I’m wondering what other crops and their companion crops I can plant.

I think I have 10 x 15 plot of land (roughly!) that I can use for gardening

If you are unable to have good fresh herbs and spices grown on your own land, is there a reputable source or company to purchase them from? We keep reading about consumer reports finding heavy metals especially in name brand spices purchased from the grocery store and looking for potential alternatives. Any recommendations are greatly appreciated.

Has anyone thought or has used multispectral imaging for crops? I’m considering doing it but want to hear other peoples experience.

My favorite aunt is going to be sectioning off 3 acres of her 15 to sell to me. The property does not have city water. It does not have septic myself and my spouse both bring in about 40,000 a year I have 10,000 cash to start with I’m just trying to formulate a plan to figure out what goes on the timeline so I’m not spending money that I don’t need to a little background is we’re going to be renting a house on the property from her while preparing my 3 acre lot for either a prefab home or a trailer or something. I’m in Cass county Missouri and I’m walking into the situation pretty blindly so any heads up or things to think about opinions advice all of it is much appreciated

I am considering putting a wood stove in our 1300 sq ft house as a supplemental heat source. Can you all give me some input please? Styles or brands of stoves to consider or avoid? Things you regret doing/not doing after you installed a wood stove? Any info you want to give is appreciated, thank you.

I have roughly 13 acres of land (3 acres of yard, 5 field, and 5 wooded). I currently have a small flock of laying chickens (25) that I'd like expand and also add meat birds. I'm also looking to do a small raised bed garden. No other immediate plans.

I've been researching tractors and my search has mostly led me to subcompact tractors. My mower died this year so my thought was to get a tractor that I could use to mow the yard regularly, the field semi-regularly, and also use for some small projects around the property (light grading and digging).

I'm interested in a Kubota BX2380 package that includes a front end loader, belly mower, box blade, and trailer. My hesitation is getting something that does both mowing and farmwork in one, but doesn't do either as well as a dedicated mower and dedicated, larger tractor.

Any advice from folks who have a similar situation?

I'm finally getting rid of a bunch of dead trees on my property in order to clear it for other activities, and most of them have massive ivy vines all over them. I already have the trees down, but I'm not sure what to do with all this wood with vines all over it. I know I can't burn it, and I don't really just want to pile it up and let it rot. Are there any other options I'm not thinking of?

Just wanted to share my view this evening