What to do with 3.5 gallons of heavy whipping cream?

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With a simple $25 investment and 8 weeks of work, I was able to save myself a 10 minute trip to target for a $5 jar of dried dill.

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Grateful to call this my home(stead)!

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Just a proud moment - eggs from my hens, potatoes from my garden and bacon from my Duroc . No store involved.

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I build shade shelters for my sheep using tree branches and other stuff. Zero metal, all natural. Sturdy as hell.

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Grandma.

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Wife's been doing a bit of canning from what we have grown..

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Put together a cleaning station. Turned out well I think.

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Bought a home in 2019 with a raised garden bed full of weeds. Three years later we expanded the garden considerably. Lots of trial and error.

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Just bought my little farm, almost 2 acres.

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A Homestead dinner - no store involved! Longhorn Steaks (my cow), Fresh eggs (my Plymouth rocks), Garden potatoes tossed in dried and powdered chillis and tallow.

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It is an alternate reality

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The trees really popped last week on the homestead!

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In a world where nothing comes free

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This is something I never thought I would see in my rear view mirror.

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Cows enjoying their brush

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Homestead Dinner - 100% Store free (except the salt, sorry) Moose tenderloin , Honey Glazed beets , Pickled garlic , Smashed Fermented cauliflower w/ herbs.

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Sometimes you just have to stop and look

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Built my first harvest basket. Not perfect but super fun to build.

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Momma got into my apple trees but I got to see her baby so I guess that's a fair trade.

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Couldn’t afford fencing material so I made my own. Fence made in the English Wattle style

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My hens make me feel like a millionaire

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My city-reared husband is enjoying the heck out of homesteading.

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They'll probably be little hooligans in a couple months, but right now, our bucklings are snugglemuffins :)

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These raised gardens that make gardening accessible for seniors and people in wheelchairs need become normalized!

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Just bought 5 acres and don’t even know where to start!

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YES!!!! Be gone vermin!! 🤣

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Two rows of beauty, should be dry for next season!

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Just a simple spice rack if anyone is looking for ideas. 100% free build from scrap wood.

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first successful canning!Peaches, Peach Butter, Peach Pepper Jelly, Blackberry Jam, Peach Bourbon Jam.

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Love this sentiment you dont need 100 acres in the deep woods to do this thing! You can homestead in your cul-de-sac!

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Pig broke her leg last night so today I guess I’m making 40 lbs of bacon.

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Drying Paprika In The Paprika Capital Of The World, Donja Lokosnica, Serbia

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Trying to learn as much as I can while I prepare to permanently exit city life

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A pleasant surprise found while hiking my property this weekend

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Homestead skills

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Well I did it. Bought my first tractor

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i was told ya'll prefer wood stacked

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Had to edit this a bit

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Why I Homestead ... $9.60 Dinner - 2lbs Longhorn New York , 4 cast cooked chicken breasts, 2 lbs baked sprouts, 8 grilled potatoes. No store involved!

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War has been declared on the grasshoppers this year as my daughter commands our army of chickens to sweet victory.

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I know it isn’t much, but it’s so cool to eat our homegrown chard! We grew it on our balcony.

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the crew

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100% Self Produced Dinner - Broth reduction Braised Longhorn Flank , chunky kefir yogurt mashed potatoes, butter and herb sprouts, baked salt and pepper beets. (Salt I didn’t make sorry) Cost - $5

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small backyard harvest!

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We hatched 8 chicks in the incubator and this hen hatched five. Now she has them all.

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Processing day. 50 Lbs of home grown meat for the freezer.

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We finally have our own slice of heaven!

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Front Yarden.

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grew these from seeds, super proud 😍

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First winter at the homestead. Didn’t know just being at a place could make me happy

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Homemade gifts

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99% Homegrown Meal. Holy Hell this feels good!

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A pig got out of its pen

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Finally have a reason to post in this sub. Used bookstore score.

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Wheat fail. I planted a pound and harvested 3 ounces.

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-19° | Wood boiler heating the house, shop, barn and out shed w/ 1L of homemade beer to help with the morning chores!

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My townie neighbours have been watching Yellowstone again...

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One of my ducks laid this for me this morning

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Update: posted a picture of a garden bed I made the other day. Some of yall liked it so here is all of them finished. Gonna add gravel walkways next!

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Basket Weaving

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intro: it's not finished and it's not much. 3 acres, 30×50, 2bdrm, 2bath, metal shopdominium. debt free. every spare dime, every work bonus, birthday money, Christmas Gifts, side hussles-every extra penny goes to the house. more in the comments.

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Violet has about a week left of freedom before her kids make their entrance.

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Yep.

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First piece of wood on the mill

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This is on of the reasons I love county life. A good sign that spring is getting close.

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This was just what our homestead was missing! Hopefully he won't mind herding the ducks, at least till we get some sheep :)

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This is Valenten, my first bull of the season

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Found some good pawpaws this year

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So thankful for our 40 acre homestead. We’ve worked our whole lives for it- it was worth it!

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Showing Aurora the hat made from her wool.

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My American buffs are hatching! 1st mama had a 100% hatch rate. Goose is on the menu this fall.

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My small start

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Plum Season

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I love when the seed catalogs start coming in.

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I know it ain’t much but I just made this little raised bed and planted some bare root strawberries

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Definitely buy the goat.

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Livin' the dream: my neighbors chickens laid too many eggs and they were kind enough to think of us!

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My small fig plant UPDATE😍 In few days i will taste the first fruit from my small fig tree!

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So I posted a duck that just showed up in our pond the other day looking for help on the breed and he ended up getting named Jimmy. Well Jimmy brought friends without asking, meet Jason and Jamie. We think someone dumped them.

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Roast guinea fowl: juicy, tender, extremely delicious

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This is what happens when you don't 'take care' of your lawn. You begin to see an amazing array of species creep back in... yes, there are some weeds, but plenty of wildflowers too. The chicken yard is a sea of spiderwort blooms this morning! I think the ladies enjoy it too!

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Slabs of bacon from a pig my mother-in-law raised smoking in the smoker I made.

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Our first homekill - Alpaca meat (story in comments)

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Our Garlic Harvest This Morning - Zone 5

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Per my last post / first time using my homemade bath salts with herbs from my garden

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Our hen Morgan LeFay is eight years old, and lays maybe three dozen eggs a year, but she is a wonderful Duck Nanny

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We’re getting sleet and ice. The girls don’t like it one bit and are hiding in their new shelter.

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Thought you all might enjoy this.

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Had a school field trip come to our farm today.

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Due to the breakdown in the beef processing industry supply chain, my dad has switched over to breeding large dogs as pets, like this little feller here. He's a large Bull terrier, sits on command, and answers to the name MOOOOO...

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Just closed on a 1 bed 1 bath farmhouse on 2 acres in western Washington. It's go time.

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Our peach trees are just overflowing this year. What are your favorite peach recipes, if I have to can another peach I'm going to cry.

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This little melon is so damned cute; duck egg for size comparison. One of our thinned seedlings from Baker Creek seeds; can't recall which one!

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Agreed

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My wife make pickled quail eggs to sell at swaps. She is now adding theses belt buckles made out of the left over quail egg shells. These two thing just about cover all our feed cost.

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My partner's gym this summer.

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Depression Era victory garden

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53 lbs of organic Saturn peaches.

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Starting to practice making everything homemade. Lots of fun!

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My first harvest isn't much (and it isn't pretty 😅), but I'm excited all the same!

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The wife and I working in the yard.

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Had an extra jumbo egg today

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The first round of pickles and pickle relish are ready for the pantry.

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I bought the wife a present and I think she loves it

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Butchered and cooked my first chicken raised by me

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Can you do anything with black walnuts? Are these over- or under-ripe? Is any of this worth the effort? No idea, but I am about to find out

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Who else has turkeys that follow their toddler everywhere?

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The last harvest of the year. Already gave a bunch to my neighbors. We are looking to can some and freeze the rest.

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My vegetable greenhouse in wisconsin

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Wife gets a promotion at work, spends the first new check on a new broadfork!

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I just harvested the first of my veggies and I can't explain how proud I am

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Anyone know if rammed earth would be capable of being used for an outdoor sauna? Could it tolerate rapid heating with out cracking over time?

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We had a visitor today. The last time I saw one of these guys was two weeks before I was offered early retirement.

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144lbs of chicken in the freezer after 7hrs of butchering. Damn we are going to eat good this winter! And needing a new freezer incase we bag a deer this fall too....

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Garden is growing fast.

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Funeral Pyre for old Jim Bob

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Coffee with this cute chick.

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Went to go kick the kids out the back door so they would do their morning homestead chores but they were already outside doing them.... I am so proud

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Building a Homestead? Never underestimate how much gravel you are going to need when calculating expenses.

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Looked out the window and thought something was on fire. Nope something much worse. It’s spring with the Cedars releasing pollen.

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I was not prepeared for this harvest.

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Every goddamn time

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How to tell if your eggs are fresh or going bad

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Did you know Hastas are delicious, especially this time of year? Sauteed in bacon fat or butter, garlic and salt. Enjoy

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My husband keeps getting his work interrupted by Mizu, our favorite turkey poult. Any heritage turkey owners here?

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Created a logo online and had a stamp made on etsy. No, I'm not really a farm but just having fun!

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Instead of a White Picket Fence, how about a Prickly Pear Fence? Common practice in North Africa, North Mexico & Ex-Mexico. Delicious. Generally, what do you think of cacti hedges, ecologically and as self-sustaining enclosures? [Warning: always check for invasiveness before planting]

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Sink wash station

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This is Gemma, our newest house goat. She's been rejected by her mama, so we'll be bottle feeding her.

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My 23 acres in central Texas

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Got a point.

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Goatly is the 2nd oldest animal on our farm. She was tossed around homes a lot because she is barren, but we’re happy to have her! She’s full of love, and apples. At 13 years old, she’s still looking good :) -Galaxy View Farm

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Today's berry harvest! Proud of our little backyard!

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Well Said

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Showing off some of my animals.

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I love living in the woods. A turkey stopped by....

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My Old Well In My Village, Soon Going To Be Rebuilt, I'm Going To Miss It

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Three days of laying - good thing I have neighbors!

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12 pounds of fresh bunny burger

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Simmering our own butchered chicken stock all day on the wood stove, while it snows out. It has me feeling all sorts of cozy.

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Country Summer Vibing 💚

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The original flat free tire

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My favorite scent to have on the wood stove in the autumn. Smells so good in here! Cranberries, lemon, cinnamon, rosemary, eucalyptus. What other combos would be good!

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