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We've been drying apples for about 15 years now. This is how we do it. Buy an apple corer/peeler/slicer. It's the hand crank model that you spear the apple to on one end. Fill a 1-qt. bowl 3/4 the way with water. Add 2 T. lemon juice. After you've sliced your apples, drop them in the water for a cou...

We use a homemade elderberry tincture and echinacea/elderberry (Sambucol) cough syrup. Zinc works great for us for sore throats.

Red, I've put my babies in their carseat or playpen (depending how old) under a shade tree and let them enjoy being outside while I've planted gardens. It's good for Mom & Baby to be outside anyway, right? I agree with starting small. Our first garden, we planted way too much and then August, we...

Thanks y'all.

Bonniegirl, I suppose the western slope of CO is cowboy country but I'm originally from Texas, the original cowboy country of the southwest. Well, at least we like to think Texans are original.

Thanks for the welcome y'all.

I just found your site through a friend from another homesteading forum. A little about boring old me. I homeschool my 3 children, 1 boy (14) and 2 girls (9 & 7). My DH & I own 2 carpet cleaning companies in CO. We just moved back to CO from small town Missouri. This is the first time we've ...