Ten Ways to Use Apples

It's apple season again! Here's ten great ways to use apples!

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Adding New Hens to an Existing Flock

Adding new hens to an existing flock needs to be done with care.

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Adding New Hens to an Existing Flock

Orpingtons, Squash and Dried Beans

It's been a busy week around my house, I've been busy busy busy harvesting and preserving. I am happy to say my garden is about 75% harvested now. I also got two new hens this week; they are Orpingtons.

These are my two new Orpingtons. They are about 6-7 months old. They lay large eggs that are a grey/greenish colour. Google tells me that they have extremely nice temperaments, right now they are a little too scared and shy for me to tell if that's true or not. They are very pretty and over the next year they will fill out and get a lot fluffier. They get big fluffy butts when they are adults.

This week, I got the last of my winter squash prepared for winter. Squash is easy to preserve, simply leave it out in the sun for ten days to harden it's shell and then wipe clean with vinegar to kill any bacteria. The squash shown in the basket below is a combination of butternut, buttercup and acorn squash. It should stay good for several months.

Belowis Romano beans. I left them on the vine to dry so I could make dried beans. I picked them all and am now finishing their drying inside. Once their pods are dried out and the beans rattle inside the pods, I will sehll them and put them in a jar for later use. 

Rice and Stuffing Filled Pumpkin Recipe

This is an excellent recipe for a harvest feast or potluck.

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Today was a happy day around the homestead, one of my Waynadottes laid her first egg (I got her when she was ten weeks old and she's now about 7 months old) and I harvested all my pumpkins

The Wyandotte egg is the one in the middle. It is very small; they get bigger as the hen gets older.

Pumpkin harvest; the pumpkins were not extremely big, but they came out nice and healthy. I'm going to freeze the pumkin and ue it to make pumpkin bread and pumpkin pie