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Home brew (excepting cider)
Make your own cider
- Cider making
- Cider racked for the first time
- Oops, something I forgot to mention (the importance of airtight seals)
- Almost ready (first sampling)
Food
Energy conservation
Fencing
Gather, cut and split wood for the fire
Dealing with vermin
Manage woodland and trees
Choosing, using and maintaining tools
Pig husbandry
- Clean a livestock trailer
- Clean a pig pen
- Preparing for farrowing (pt 1)
- Transporting livestock in a family car
- Weigh pigs without scales
Rear poultry
- Introducing new hens to a flock
- Feed chickens
- Wing clipping chickens
- Slaughter poultry (no pictures)
- Slaughter poultry (in pictures)
Prepare rabbits
- First, catch your rabbit (paunching)
- How to skin a rabbit
Grow vegetables
- Growing carrots
- Growing Jeruslaem artichokes
- Growing kale
- Growing potatoes
- Growing turnips
- Planting garlic
- Grow, harvest and store onions
- Potatoes and their uses pt 1
- Potatoes and their uses pt 2
- Preparing to lift potatoes
- Saving seeds for Latvian peas
- Storing potatoes
- Turn animal muck into compost pt1
- Turn animal muck into compost pt2
- Maintain raised beds
- Till the root break (includes video)
- Plant brassicas
- Plant shallots and onions by hand on a field scale
Prepare and preserve vegetables
Make things from salvage
- Turn an old roof rack into a pig creep
- Building a hen house
- Build a hen house (Mk 3)
- Salvage and recycle timber
- Make tent pegs
- Build display boards
- Make a folding picnic table…
Assemble a Winther Kangaroo Bike
Building maintenance
Servicing a BCS 715 two-wheel tractor (Intermotor 1 IM350 4-stroke petrol engine)
Maintain a 1990 Land Rover Defender 300TDi
There are more posts like these on the blog (follow the How To link the Categories list in the right-hand column), so I’ll gradually link these to this page to make them easier to find.
The time has come at last for me to start bumping off the chickens. I’m intending to wring their necks, but the description on eHow is too vague – any chance you could lay it on the line?
I’ll try to get something written up in the next day or two. I do have a draft somewhere, but don’t think I took photos last time. And the two cockerels I have waiting for Christmas are still a little small to be dispatched now, so it will probably have to be photo free for now.
Oh, and I prefer to use a hand-held humane dispatcher. People with weaker hands would probably prefer a wall-mounted one. I’ve used a hatchet before (which does need a bit of skill if you’re not going to make a mess or injure yourself), a knife and a killing cone (needs a lot of skill to do it correctly), and I’ve wrung their neck (but you really need someone to actually demonstrate this and I only do it as a last resort anyway).
Hey Stonehead,
I can’t find the “search” field to search your blog… It used to be at the top of your blog. Is this intentional? Searching by topic seems quite a bit more unwieldy, at least for me.
I also miss the “about” statement that that you had posted before your organizational theme changed. Guess I kinda liked it…
Take care.
The search box was moved down to between Recent Comments and the Calendar, but I’ve moved it back up again. We’ll see if anyone has a problem with it being back at the top.
It does mean I’ll have to trim back the number of Top Posts and Recents Post to four each instead of six though. I’ll leave the Comments at six as it gives a better spread of comments.
As for the About sidebar, it’s not available in the new theme so I’ve incorporated the information into the Hard Place page.
I’ve considered getting chickens. But that’s more time then I want spend on food. Plus I want to become a vegetarian hahahah. Your blog is really informative. I’ll be checking back if I need help on something.
This is the first time I have noticed these tabs. Very helpful. Thanks!