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Debbie’s bread from Country Side Magazine

This made four to five loaves so I had to do math to get it down to one loaf. What you see below is my math for one loaf. This can also be used for burger buns or cinnamon raisin bread/rolls with some minor changes.

One Teaspoon yeast (was four)
One quarter Teaspoon of Maple Syrup (was one)
One quarter cup of warm water. (was one)
Mix together and let sit ten minutes to activate the yeast.

One half cup hot water. (was two)
One half cup of milk. (was two)
One half cup of rolled oats. (was two)
One twelfth cup of olive oil roughly two tablespoons. (was one third, its fuzzy math)
One eighth cup molasses. (was one half cup)
One egg (This was two eggs so I just cut it in half)
One eighth cup of Flax seed ground. (was one half)
One eighth cup of pumpkin seeds ground. (was one half)
One eighth cup of Sesame seeds crushed. (was one half)
One eighth cup of sunflower seeds crushed. (was one half)
Mix with the first four ingredients.

One quarter tablespoon Xanthan or Guar gum for thickener. (one tablespoon)
One half cup whole wheat flour. (was two cups)
Three quarter cup spelt flour. (was three cups)
One and one quarter cup white flour. (was five cups)
Mix it all together and let it rise until it doubles in size
Punch down and place it in a greased, floured bread pan.
Let it rise until it doubles in size.
Bake at 375 degrees for thirty to thirty five minutes.

Debbie Morey
Perth Ontario, Canada
debbiemorey01ATgmail.com
Country Side Magazine

Broccoli

I used gallon milk jugs and a small shelter on the deck to get these started around the first of April. So far so good, I think I may start the brussel sprouts second week of April.

337 New Karner Rd

Found this out at permies.com

Permies

I like the sounds of the birds calling at the end even if it does happen at to early an hour for the person doing the filming. The birds make better neighbours than the party all night and throw empty bottles of Crown Royal and baggies on my front yard that I had in Schenectady, NY.

Gourds

My order for bushel gourds and loofah sponge gourd seeds arrived in the mail today. If even half of what I bought for seeds this year comes up I’ll be amazed.

And a couple pictures of loofah gourds.140 to 200 days of grow time so I may never see anything from these but they look interesting.

An electric tractor

Steve Heckeroth 20HP Electric tractor with 60 peak traction HP.

Another tractor by the same designer.

Joel Salatin, Folks this ain’t Normal

I found this on Permies.

A small circular Hugelkulture bed design. I found this on the forums at Permies.com from a guy by the name of Chris Dean. I like the look of it and he used a rough cob to hold it all together. The center is an area to dump compost and water. I think I could incorporate this into my stone wall fence project with one or two on the low part of the yard.
I think the hardest part will be filling this with dirt, since all I have are my hands and a few small tools.