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I think the granulated sugar, put in your blender is just considered superfine sugar. Powdered or confectioner's sugar is blended longer, with a high-powered blender and I think cornstarch is added as well. Perhaps a glaze made with homemade superfine sugar can be obtained with heat to dissolve the sugar better, but I haven't tried that. I have had decent results using a spice grinder, but it only makes a very small amount at a time and the first batch is basically just to clean the blades of any residual spices (I use salt for that batch.) That freeze-dried pumpkin puree and regular pumpkin puree can be "snuck into" homemade macaroni and cheese for a nutrient boost - I call it "hidden veggies pasta". LOL
One thing my mom did especially when covid hit, we got a whole bunch of non perishable things that we knew we could keep long term. And a big chunk of them went down into our storage part of our finished basement. Then she wrote up a whole list with the quantity of things that she tapped on the inside of the cabinet door where we store those non perishables we plan to use within the immediate future upstairs in the kitchen. as we use things we check the list (we have one down in the storage part as well) we cross off what we are taking and that helps us keep track of what we have, what we are getting low on etc. Might help with your stores of dried goods so as you use them you can see ok this is what i got in stock out there to rotate through. loving all the goats getting round with kids its exciting to see that coming up so fast!
@@SageandStoneHomesteadJessica from Three rivers homestead did a video kinda recently about her inventory system. I’m thinking if it works for her big family, it’ll work with my little family. 😊
It is wonderful to watch you pick your key limes and immediately make a dessert. Such a tropical fruit for you to pick at home and in the middle of JANUARY!! Thanks so much for sharing your day with us. Stay safe!🙏❤🇺🇸
What a lovely monday morning visit with my dark haired neice! 😊 cookies looked delish. Critters all looked warm and happy. So proud of you Heather. 💜👍💜 Aunt Beth
Heather, another great video of your hard work. I’d like you to know how motivated you make me just by watching your every day chores…wish I started when I was your age…but it’s all good to enjoy at any age… enjoy your snowy touch of Maine!
@SageandStoneHomestead yah my house can get down to 5% humidity in winter if I don't do something to add more in the air. Since might just be a northern issue lol.
@@79PoisonBreaker I can definitely say, Maine (obviously closer to Canada than KY LOL) is much, much drier than we are down here. I kinda miss that because humid cold is just gross!
Ferals head is lookign much better. I love Elara she has to be my favorite. I can't wait until she kids. I haven't seen much of Foxy in your videos lately. Is she just hiding in all the big goats? I am so amazed at how well my baby bunnies are doing in this weather compared to spring/summer weather.❤❤
I love the magazine I'm so happy that you were sponsored by it and gave us a code. We also are only fourweeks away from our ladies to kid and I have 8 rabbits due this coming weekend. I'm sure all but two may three didn't take. But it's fine we have other that will be breed this weekend so they will be re bred again. Thank you for sharing till next time God Bless.
@SageandStoneHomestead I am thinking about trying to plant it amongst my corn pach as a living mulch. Just have to keep the weeds at bay till the pumpkin vines grow in.
Good morning and happy new year! Having coffee with you this beautiful sunshine morning. It feels like forever since the holidays. I don’t have rabbits, but I do use the goats and chickens manure. I age the manure before using it. I am hopeful for a warmer spring and summer this year. Our summers on average will get about 65 degrees, we are on the Pacific Northwest coast. A lot of things are very hard to grow because we are so cool.
Heather we had two days of snow here in the Dallas area 🥶 we are used to getting some but these were some big ol flakes. Love the video. Oh just signed up as a member 😊😊
It might be caster sugar that you’re thinking of? I make it in my food processor every year during the Christmas holidays in order to make a Scottish Shortbread recipe that we like.💗
Those biscuits looked wonderful! I've never seen anyone freeze dry pumpkin, it will be interesting to see if it dies work like instant potatoes. It is hot in my part of Australia which I'm enjoying but we've had lots of rain so the humidity is high.
Your seedlings are looking fantastic. I don't really have an idea yet of what I'm planning for the garden this year, but I do want to try to grow some better paste variety tomatoes. Those Tachi I grew were very productive, but just not enough for the size they were. Hopefully we'll find something like your Ox Hearts. Far as the peppers go, we had a substantial amount of harvest, but also looking at a sweeter variety this year.
Soooo exciting for kidding season. My first doe will be a first freshener and that’s March 22 😍🥰. Then my second doe will also be a first time freshener and that will be May 20 😍🥰🥰
The main plan is to use it like instant potatoes, except instant mashed pumpkin with butter and herbs! YUM But really, we can use it in any way we would use pumpkin puree, just add a little water to the consistency we need :)
Those cookies look so yum! How did you find out it’s ok to sub different things? Did you just try it and found out it worked? Wow! Your seedlings look great! I love those magazines. I get them at Tractor Supply when they have something in them I want to read.
Some cookbooks will have suggestions you can use for substitutions in recipes, with things like clabber usually it's older cook books or other homesteaders that I've heard use it in place of ricotta. It does work well! :)
Love your outdoor cathouse. We have 3 outdoor ferals we feed and this looks perfect. Where did you get it? We tried the ones with "heated" pads but not very good.
This one has a heated pad and the cats love it! My mom sent it from Amazon, I tried to find the exact one I have and it's not on there anymore! But, the company website has a few models clawsable.com/
We are going to have 10 kidding and that's about average for spring for us. We do two kiddings a year (different groups, one spring and one fall) so we have milk year-round. Spring is for the high production animals :)
@SageandStoneHomestead that's what I had thought. I only have 1 full ND and hope to have her kid in fall, but I have like 14 due to kid in spring. Which is way more than I'm used to. I am excited for your kidding and milking videos!
The cookies looked yummy, Heather! I love key lime anything, so right up my alley haha. Really enjoyed seeing how everyone is doing in the weather y'all are having, goatie goats all look fabulous. Buster, kitties, poultry, bunnies, Chloe and so on. That black bunny with the smallest dot of white on its nose is adorable, I bet black pompoms will be super awesome too. Seedlings are coming along nicely! Will be interesting to see how your brassicas do hold up - I love the 'doing it for science' type of personal mini-experiments haha. I do love my magazines, I plan to find some nice holders for them to keep them organized. Lots of great info inside them and can read/touch at your leisure and also 'disconnect' digitally at the same time. Can't wait to see roof on barn extension and all the finishing touches. Hoping it can all happen in time for you to do your rearranging before kiddings start! 💚🐇🎃💚
Levi has been out there off and on today and The Grimes' are coming over tomorrow after church to help out with the roof. After that Levi is getting a pallet of pine pellet bedding to put down on the ground in there in the wettest spots AND he's picking up a hay delivery to stack in there immediately! We might actually get more than 30 bales since we can fit way more in there!!
@@SageandStoneHomestead Sounds like a very busy time this weekend, hoping it all goes smoothly and well! It'll be so awesome when it is all done, another massive investment into the future.
Those cookies look almost like a biscuit, but oooh, I'll bet they are tasty! Was that my question about the no-knead bread? I need to print out my recipes instead of leaving them "favorited" online. Since I have a lot of sites it makes it hard to find sometimes.
Yeah!! I always just googled "no knead artisan loaf" and looked for the familiar picture in the recipe, it was a struggle this last time so I wrote it down.
@SageandStoneHomestead oh okay it kind of reminds me of like a suitcase with a Velcro. Pretty awesome thank you so much glad you survived the snow your plants are still looking great! I was thinking about you for the last few days while the snow was coming down here in Oklahoma.
@SageandStoneHomestead me again. Do you happen to know the size? The 14x11 I'm looking at seems smaller than yours and what I need. Thanks ahead for your time!
@@rabbitwench www.etsy.com/listing/1687854972/pampered-chef-100384-beige-stone-bar-pan?gpla=1&gao=1&&Cj0KCQiA-aK8BhCDARIsAL_-H9kdxlcx-FVe_YPSl_m2LsycA696E6DMHrSa04XgfnKj1EITng_PTqcaAvvPEALw_wcB_k_&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiA-aK8BhCDARIsAL_-H9kdxlcx-FVe_YPSl_m2LsycA696E6DMHrSa04XgfnKj1EITng_PTqcaAvvPEALw_wcB That is the one I have! Two of them fit side by side in my oven, barely! I think this is the cheapest price online but shop around. It's the "Large Bar Pan" and 16x 11.75 lip to lip outside measurements :)
Hi Heather, I have a question about starting seedlings right now. I am in Alabama Zone 7b. Are the seedlings that you started being kept in a warm room for 8 weeks as most seed packages state? Or can they be started in a greenhouse with heat lamps only? It’s still getting really cold here at night but the lamps seem to keep the temperature above freezing. I guess I’m just confused on how much cold is too much to get them started even though they are cold weather crops. Any help appreciated.
Mine will be inside but by around 6 weeks I'll start transitioning them to the greenhouse. My greenhouse freezes at night still and they can handle it to a point but being in pots their roots are at risk of chilling too much. They will grow slower in the cold and with less light that winter provides but they will grow still as long as a super cold night doesn't wipe them out. A heat mat might be nice if the heat lamp looks like it might burn the leaves.
@ thank you for your advice. You keep me motivated on days when I feel there is nothing I can do. Been fighting a respiratory thing for a month and trying to gain my strength back and you know, it’s winter, but I see all the little and big things that you do in a day and inspires me to try a little harder. I hope you realize how many people you bless in different ways with your channel. 🤗
This is making me upset. Every time I post on here it seems to disappears all the time. I do watch your videos all the time. It does not make me happy. I appreciate what you do and I love your content, all the learning I get from you. Thank you for sharing. Thoughts and Prayers always. Love and Blessings. Doris, Penrith 🇦🇺🦘
That happens to me too Doris!! I don't know why but it seems like some people's comments are picked on for no reason. Hugs, I know you always watch and I appreciate you!
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Thanks , I used your code
HUGE difference between Maine weather and Kentucky weather! 😄 (I used to live in New Brunswick 😉 No, I do not miss the weather)
Thank you! Used the code!!
@@WillowCreekFarm85 You will love them!
@@HoneyHollowHomestead yes I agree!!
Loved this video today! So encouraging thank you! Such a fun variety of homestead happenings! Blessings on you and your family Kiddo!🌿💚👵
I struggle with a “black thumb” but my Mom always said I was a good gardener and that those plants should have really just tried harder. 😂🤷♀️
Mom is right!! LOL
I love to hear you talk you are doing very well with making videos
Thank you so much!
cottage pie with pumpkin instead of potato is yummy for the pumpkin lovers
OOH thanks!!
Another great episode. Love seeing the farm critters. Can you please tell me what mylar bag sealer you use?
It is from Harvest Right :)
@SageandStoneHomestead thank you so much :)
I love the darling goat in the cover photo!!!! Goats are so photogenic, and he looks like he's having a conversation with you!!!
That is Feral and he is such a sweetie! :)
I think the granulated sugar, put in your blender is just considered superfine sugar. Powdered or confectioner's sugar is blended longer, with a high-powered blender and I think cornstarch is added as well. Perhaps a glaze made with homemade superfine sugar can be obtained with heat to dissolve the sugar better, but I haven't tried that. I have had decent results using a spice grinder, but it only makes a very small amount at a time and the first batch is basically just to clean the blades of any residual spices (I use salt for that batch.) That freeze-dried pumpkin puree and regular pumpkin puree can be "snuck into" homemade macaroni and cheese for a nutrient boost - I call it "hidden veggies pasta". LOL
Funny, I put pumpkin in the pasta sauce we had last night! Hidden pumpkin forever with all these pumpkins haha
Also great for thickening soups and chili, etc. Yum!
One thing my mom did especially when covid hit, we got a whole bunch of non perishable things that we knew we could keep long term. And a big chunk of them went down into our storage part of our finished basement. Then she wrote up a whole list with the quantity of things that she tapped on the inside of the cabinet door where we store those non perishables we plan to use within the immediate future upstairs in the kitchen. as we use things we check the list (we have one down in the storage part as well) we cross off what we are taking and that helps us keep track of what we have, what we are getting low on etc. Might help with your stores of dried goods so as you use them you can see ok this is what i got in stock out there to rotate through. loving all the goats getting round with kids its exciting to see that coming up so fast!
Thank you so much!! I will do some version of this!
@@SageandStoneHomesteadJessica from Three rivers homestead did a video kinda recently about her inventory system. I’m thinking if it works for her big family, it’ll work with my little family. 😊
Freeze Dryer will certainly keep that room from freezing. Your citrus is probably love the heat from it. Your seedlings look beautiful 😍
Thank you! Going to be 14 degrees again in the morning and I've got another pumpkin loaded up in there ! 🤩
It is wonderful to watch you pick your key limes and immediately make a dessert. Such a tropical fruit for you to pick at home and in the middle of JANUARY!! Thanks so much for sharing your day with us. Stay safe!🙏❤🇺🇸
I can't wait for the upcoming season when the other bush should put fruit on too!!
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What a lovely monday morning visit with my dark haired neice! 😊 cookies looked delish. Critters all looked warm and happy. So proud of you Heather. 💜👍💜 Aunt Beth
Thank you so much, always great to "see" you!
My daughter lives down there on Ft Campbell and her German Shepherd is loving the snow 😂
I bet!! Haha
You are starving me to death talking about that mashed and buttered pumpkin 😅
LOL so sorry!! ♥
Good Morning... Just here drinking my coffee enjoying your videos like always :)
Thank you so much! I've got my coffee this morning too :)
Heather, another great video of your hard work. I’d like you to know how motivated you make me just by watching your every day chores…wish I started when I was your age…but it’s all good to enjoy at any age… enjoy your snowy touch of Maine!
I am so glad you appreciate the content even if it's just the everyday stuff :) I really enjoy sharing so it's a win-win! Thanks for being here!
I love savory squash/pumpkin dishes. Yum! We go the garlic, sambal route. So good.
Happy I was wrong about the celery
I was thinking about it and in that corner of our house there is no heat vent. I bet that made a big difference for them and not drying out!
@SageandStoneHomestead yah my house can get down to 5% humidity in winter if I don't do something to add more in the air. Since might just be a northern issue lol.
@@79PoisonBreaker I can definitely say, Maine (obviously closer to Canada than KY LOL) is much, much drier than we are down here. I kinda miss that because humid cold is just gross!
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Good morning Heather and farm fam! You’re gonna be covered up with goat kids this year ❤
SO EXCITED
Wow! You must’ve put the video out as soon as you finished filming it! Thanks! Really enjoyed it! Love how floofy the goats are!
Yep!! I finished filming this morning and had been editing it little by little all week :)
Ferals head is lookign much better. I love Elara she has to be my favorite. I can't wait until she kids. I haven't seen much of Foxy in your videos lately. Is she just hiding in all the big goats? I am so amazed at how well my baby bunnies are doing in this weather compared to spring/summer weather.❤❤
Yeah she's in the barn! I'll make sure I point her out for Wednesday's video. :) Foxy will be bred in May for fall babies! ♥
Here in Indiana, and I am so jealous about you starting plants! Soon maybe...
The cookies look so yummy!
Thanks! They were great. Glad it made so many!
Great video though I had a question I really enjoyed the weekly round up you were doing in November will you be continuing that for 2025?
That's what this is except posted on a monday this week :)
@SageandStoneHomestead oop you labeled in the past and it threw me off
@balicard00 some of them were labeled weekly vlog yes you're right! :) some of them get "farm life vlog" too, that is a bit confusing!
I love the magazine I'm so happy that you were sponsored by it and gave us a code. We also are only fourweeks away from our ladies to kid and I have 8 rabbits due this coming weekend. I'm sure all but two may three didn't take. But it's fine we have other that will be breed this weekend so they will be re bred again. Thank you for sharing till next time God Bless.
You are blessed for sure!!
You just reminded me that I need to get some seeds going. I cannot wait to do all the pumpkin things later this year! Thanks for sharing.
I hope your pumpkin patch is a big success!!!
@SageandStoneHomestead I am thinking about trying to plant it amongst my corn pach as a living mulch. Just have to keep the weeds at bay till the pumpkin vines grow in.
Good morning and happy new year! Having coffee with you this beautiful sunshine morning. It feels like forever since the holidays. I don’t have rabbits, but I do use the goats and chickens manure. I age the manure before using it. I am hopeful for a warmer spring and summer this year. Our summers on average will get about 65 degrees, we are on the Pacific Northwest coast. A lot of things are very hard to grow because we are so cool.
Wow that is crazy! How long is your frost-free season?
Heather we had two days of snow here in the Dallas area 🥶 we are used to getting some but these were some big ol flakes. Love the video. Oh just signed up as a member 😊😊
YAY I thought your hoofprint was new! Welcome to the membership!!
I don’t know I think instead of a green thumb I have dirt under my fingernails all summer long! 😂😂
Same!! haha ♥
Me too! 👍😂
It might be caster sugar that you’re thinking of? I make it in my food processor every year during the Christmas holidays in order to make a Scottish Shortbread recipe that we like.💗
Yes!! That's the word, thank you!
Those biscuits looked wonderful! I've never seen anyone freeze dry pumpkin, it will be interesting to see if it dies work like instant potatoes. It is hot in my part of Australia which I'm enjoying but we've had lots of rain so the humidity is high.
We have quite a few viewers from Australia, I love it!! :)
Your seedlings are looking fantastic. I don't really have an idea yet of what I'm planning for the garden this year, but I do want to try to grow some better paste variety tomatoes. Those Tachi I grew were very productive, but just not enough for the size they were. Hopefully we'll find something like your Ox Hearts. Far as the peppers go, we had a substantial amount of harvest, but also looking at a sweeter variety this year.
The pink ox heart are great and so are the Belgian Giants!
Thank you for teaching me about seed starting and transplanting. My plants die every year. I need to figure this out.
Oh no! Any idea what's going on? At what stage are they dying?
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Soooo exciting for kidding season. My first doe will be a first freshener and that’s March 22 😍🥰. Then my second doe will also be a first time freshener and that will be May 20 😍🥰🥰
Yay!!! So exciting!!
Oh wow! Freeze dried pumpkin. How do you use this?
Exciting!😊
The main plan is to use it like instant potatoes, except instant mashed pumpkin with butter and herbs! YUM But really, we can use it in any way we would use pumpkin puree, just add a little water to the consistency we need :)
Those magazines look great! Too bad that they don’t ship to Canada
Oh that's a big bummer!
@ I’ll just keep hoping ;)
Those cookies look so yum! How did you find out it’s ok to sub different things? Did you just try it and found out it worked? Wow! Your seedlings look great! I love those magazines. I get them at Tractor Supply when they have something in them I want to read.
Some cookbooks will have suggestions you can use for substitutions in recipes, with things like clabber usually it's older cook books or other homesteaders that I've heard use it in place of ricotta. It does work well! :)
@ ohhhh ok cool! I was giving you way more credit than that! 😂
I am NOT a very intuitive cook but I have an okay memory, lol! ♥
Love your outdoor cathouse. We have 3 outdoor ferals we feed and this looks perfect. Where did you get it? We tried the ones with "heated" pads but not very good.
This one has a heated pad and the cats love it! My mom sent it from Amazon, I tried to find the exact one I have and it's not on there anymore! But, the company website has a few models clawsable.com/
How many goats are you expecting to kid this year and what is your typical number?
We are going to have 10 kidding and that's about average for spring for us. We do two kiddings a year (different groups, one spring and one fall) so we have milk year-round. Spring is for the high production animals :)
@SageandStoneHomestead that's what I had thought. I only have 1 full ND and hope to have her kid in fall, but I have like 14 due to kid in spring. Which is way more than I'm used to. I am excited for your kidding and milking videos!
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The cookies looked yummy, Heather! I love key lime anything, so right up my alley haha. Really enjoyed seeing how everyone is doing in the weather y'all are having, goatie goats all look fabulous. Buster, kitties, poultry, bunnies, Chloe and so on. That black bunny with the smallest dot of white on its nose is adorable, I bet black pompoms will be super awesome too. Seedlings are coming along nicely! Will be interesting to see how your brassicas do hold up - I love the 'doing it for science' type of personal mini-experiments haha. I do love my magazines, I plan to find some nice holders for them to keep them organized. Lots of great info inside them and can read/touch at your leisure and also 'disconnect' digitally at the same time. Can't wait to see roof on barn extension and all the finishing touches. Hoping it can all happen in time for you to do your rearranging before kiddings start! 💚🐇🎃💚
Levi has been out there off and on today and The Grimes' are coming over tomorrow after church to help out with the roof. After that Levi is getting a pallet of pine pellet bedding to put down on the ground in there in the wettest spots AND he's picking up a hay delivery to stack in there immediately! We might actually get more than 30 bales since we can fit way more in there!!
@@SageandStoneHomestead Sounds like a very busy time this weekend, hoping it all goes smoothly and well! It'll be so awesome when it is all done, another massive investment into the future.
Those cookies look almost like a biscuit, but oooh, I'll bet they are tasty! Was that my question about the no-knead bread? I need to print out my recipes instead of leaving them "favorited" online. Since I have a lot of sites it makes it hard to find sometimes.
Yeah!! I always just googled "no knead artisan loaf" and looked for the familiar picture in the recipe, it was a struggle this last time so I wrote it down.
Did you make that cozy cat box??????
That one was sent to us! It's really nice, it's Clawsable brand!
@SageandStoneHomestead oh okay it kind of reminds me of like a suitcase with a Velcro. Pretty awesome thank you so much glad you survived the snow your plants are still looking great! I was thinking about you for the last few days while the snow was coming down here in Oklahoma.
ooo what kind of cookie sheets are those?
Pampered Chef :)
@SageandStoneHomestead me again. Do you happen to know the size? The 14x11 I'm looking at seems smaller than yours and what I need.
Thanks ahead for your time!
@@rabbitwench www.etsy.com/listing/1687854972/pampered-chef-100384-beige-stone-bar-pan?gpla=1&gao=1&&Cj0KCQiA-aK8BhCDARIsAL_-H9kdxlcx-FVe_YPSl_m2LsycA696E6DMHrSa04XgfnKj1EITng_PTqcaAvvPEALw_wcB_k_&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiA-aK8BhCDARIsAL_-H9kdxlcx-FVe_YPSl_m2LsycA696E6DMHrSa04XgfnKj1EITng_PTqcaAvvPEALw_wcB
That is the one I have! Two of them fit side by side in my oven, barely! I think this is the cheapest price online but shop around. It's the "Large Bar Pan" and 16x 11.75 lip to lip outside measurements :)
Hi Heather, I have a question about starting seedlings right now. I am in Alabama Zone 7b. Are the seedlings that you started being kept in a warm room for 8 weeks as most seed packages state? Or can they be started in a greenhouse with heat lamps only? It’s still getting really cold here at night but the lamps seem to keep the temperature above freezing. I guess I’m just confused on how much cold is too much to get them started even though they are cold weather crops. Any help appreciated.
Mine will be inside but by around 6 weeks I'll start transitioning them to the greenhouse. My greenhouse freezes at night still and they can handle it to a point but being in pots their roots are at risk of chilling too much. They will grow slower in the cold and with less light that winter provides but they will grow still as long as a super cold night doesn't wipe them out. A heat mat might be nice if the heat lamp looks like it might burn the leaves.
@ thank you for your advice. You keep me motivated on days when I feel there is nothing I can do. Been fighting a respiratory thing for a month and trying to gain my strength back and you know, it’s winter, but I see all the little and big things that you do in a day and inspires me to try a little harder. I hope you realize how many people you bless in different ways with your channel. 🤗
This is making me upset. Every time I post on here it seems to disappears all the time. I do watch your videos all the time. It does not make me happy.
I appreciate what you do and I love your content, all the learning I get from you.
Thank you for sharing. Thoughts and Prayers always. Love and Blessings.
Doris, Penrith 🇦🇺🦘
That happens to me too Doris!! I don't know why but it seems like some people's comments are picked on for no reason. Hugs, I know you always watch and I appreciate you!
@@SageandStoneHomestead 🤗
Ditto...and not just this channel!
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