Publisher's Synopsis
The wait is over! Here's GARDENING FARMING. A selected anthology and collection from almost 10 years of articles, tips, and personal considerations, from the ever popular but now retired homesteading and small farm website, GRANNY MILLER. If you were a fan of GRANNY MILLER in the past but didn't get a chance to save your favorite posts and articles, this series is for you. Illustrated with black & white images from life, it's an enjoyable and down-to-earth resource for new and not so new homesteaders and small holders. Gardening, home canning, dairy animals, chickens, Dexter and Kerry cattle, food storage, animal welfare, fruit tree grafting and folklore are just some of the topics in this volume. Included is valuable sheep advice; hard to find information about water glassing eggs, storing meat in a crock, and moon sign gardening. New homesteaders will especially appreciate a helpful table for exactly how much food to grow and preserve for a family of four for a year. Discover how to make never fail yogurt in a crock pot, why a canning jar will break, and an easy way to plan for a year's worth of food and supplies. Find out how to pick a calm cow from a large group; 50 ways to forecast the weather, and the best time to set a fence post. Katherine Grossman's real-world experience and levelheaded, no-nonsense writing style is both pragmatic and positively captivating. Don't go into the garden, kitchen, or barn, without a copy of this book. This is the second volume of the GRANNY MILLER series. A sample of the contents includes: A Garden Planner for Home Food Preservation Rejected Lambs 50 Old Time Weather Proverbs & Signs A Guide to Canning and Freezing Tomatoes Pick the Best Day for Hatching Eggs How to Render Lard and Tallow Foot Scald & Foot Rot Gardening with the Moon A Year's Worth of Food and Supplies Husband & Wife Trees Choosing a Vegetable Garden Location Dexter Cattle How to Can Grapefruit or Orange Sections How to Preserve Eggs with Water Glass Hypothermic Lambs and Kid Goats Fruit Tree Grafting How to Plan For a Year's Worth of Food and Supplies Tiny Chicken Eggs - A Natural Phenomenon with a Spooky History A Realistic Assessment of Kerry Cattle A Canning Primer Small Animal and Livestock Euthanasia As Feather Loss in Chickens How to Test Seeds for Germination Rate How to Give Animal Injections Mummy Fruit Ram Marking Harness How to Make Foolproof Crock Pot Yogurt Head Whorls in Cattle How to Store Meat in a Crock Retained Placenta How to Propagate Plants by Stem Cuttings Husband & Wife Trees
