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Best milking goats for small homestead?
Ah, glad you had mentioned about the soap part. This makes the suggestion easy. Alpines. Alpines produce the most milk in one sitting. Now, if you said cheese, that is a totally different realm. It's all Nubian. Nubian produce the sweetest and the most cream out of the goat kinds. If for meat, then a Boar mixed with 1/4…
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Kombucha anyone?
Hi Jens. Congrats on getting started with kombucha! I started with a one gallon batch about a year and a half ago, and now I’m up to 3 one gallon batches and one 2 gallon continuous brew dispenser. It takes a little time to get started but you will get there. I use half green tea and half black tea in all of my batches and…
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Recipes for goat meat?
Try seco de chivo from southern ecuador: https://www.laylita.com/recipes/seco-de-chivo-or-braised-goat-stew/ in my little town of vilcabamba you can only get it on sundays and the cafe could run out! Since a local organic farmer sells goat milk and meat I bought some meat and made it myself. Turned out great. Delicious,…
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Do you pit your cherries when making jam?
I went through the same dilemma, from what I understand is it is best to pit them. There are little gadgets you can buy to speed up the process, if you really have a lot maybe one of these could be a wise investment? I had a lot but I ended up hand pitting mine. I sat down with a glass of wine and went at it, and although…
