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Chocolate Begins March 2017

Here is our first try at making organic chocolate – cocoa butter, cocoa powder, honey, and vanilla. It’s really yummy, but each one of us has suggestions for the next batch. We would like it less fudgy and more solid. Personally, I think there is way too much honey (1/2 cup)…too sweet. Next batch will be perfect, I’m sure.

I can’t wait until the raspberries are ripe. Organic chocolate and raspberries…yum! In the meantime, we’ll test the chocolate out with the strawberries…if we have any left after the FREEZE tonight!!

High 63 and Low 32!!! – Covered the gardens with hay…we’ll see what happens. Florida weather, ya gotta love it!

Happy Homesteading,

T.

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COLD again!!

High Today 51
Low last night was 28!!

More like January, but still hard to take.  Baby rabbits were born this morning to a new mom.  But she has them all covered up against the cold, so we haven’t been able to count them yet.    When rabbits give birth, they pull their own fur out from under their chin to make the nest.

The other livestock are fine. We finished putting up the meat birds last week – 33 out of the original 53! quite a heavy loss. We heard of another fast growing meat bird this week – White Heritage…supposedly ready in 6-7 weeks. The picture looks amazingly like our Cornish Cross. Have to investigate further, since there is supposed to be less loss than with Cornish.

Happy Homesteading,
T.

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