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My family and I are going to be visting Maui (Kahana) for a couple of weeks.Was wondering if anyone knew of any apiaries or bee/honey farms we could tour? Seems like most of the farm tours...

Thanks for the info. Thats a good point as we've herd that it doesn't take much to contaminate the fresh milk.

Not sure if anyone has allready mentioned similar predators? When we started keeping chickens about 10 years ago it took about a month and 20 chickens later to finally discover a great horned owl...

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My wife and I are new to dairy goat keeping and had a couple of questions. We have 5 female Newby/Boer x's that we would eventually like to milk. They are now about 18 months old and...

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I saw a cappings bag listed in the Brushy cataloge and was wondering how they work in a radial frame type extractor? Also saw a Stainless cappings basket and was wondering how effective...

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The reason I wanted to add some honey & beeswax to the soap was to make it "my nitch" at the farmers market. I can't really compete with the very experienced soapers...

Newbee soap maker here,
I just tried making a batch of cold process soap, got toward the end where I thought I was starting to get "trace" I had added a couple ounces of pre-melted beeswax,...

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I did find 100% Sodium Hydroxide @ Lowes last Sunday. I think it was $7 or so. The brand name is Roebec.

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Does anyone know if Lowes, Home depot, Menards etc sell red crown lye (or equivalant) for cold process soap? I had almost all my ingrediants together to make my first batch of soap this...

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Haven't heard anyone talk about hydrogen fueled generator or turbines. (Thought i'd open another can of worms here).

Also, bought a 15 kw PTO driven (from tractor) generator to...

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I had kept pygmy goats several years ago (10 total).Back then I was more of a “goat haver”, meaning, I didn't follow a worming, tetnis and other med and general...

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I'm a new goatkeeper (boer/newbian mix) and was wondering if any other goatkeepers, sheep, etc do their own fecal examinations? I have a microsope and was hoping to save a little $ by doing...

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I was thinking about purchasing a cappings bag (with metal insert) to use in my 18 frame radial extractor. Has anyone used these and how do you like them? They seem a little pricy @ $45 / 3...

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I was interested in Brushy Mtn's stepping stone mold (page 60). Has anyone tried making these?
I'm assuming it's a plaster type mix. Are there speacial out door/ high strength & weather...

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Getting ready to place an order @ Brushy Mtn (free shipping I heard for a couple weeks). Noticed a couple nice looking soap molds (Queen Bee tray & guest bee mold page 67).

I'm new...

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Just about ready to try hand dipped tapers (wanted to take advantage of Brush Mtn's free shipping) but had newbee questions on a couple of their products (page 64 & 65) before ordering.
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"Where did you get the idea that it costs $600???"

I had called 2 different business attorneys in town, one said his consultation fee would be $80, the state form was another $90 and the...

In a goat supply magizine I saw they were selling a goatsmilk soap that had a fluted/ridges along the broad side of the bars (love the idea). Does anyone know how these are made and where this type...

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I was wanting to make soap this winter and was told that animal fat based oils and vegetable based oils will go rancid given enough time while a soap-makingbook that I was reading said a lye...

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Recently I was told a horror story of small sideline farmer getting into legal trouble after selling vegetable goods at a local farm market (I guess a customer got sick and was...

Thank you all for the advice. I'll let you know how it goes.

Thank you very much for the helpful advice. I've got a couple books on the way as well. I'm looking forward trying this out.

God Bless

$500? Ouch man! Must be a pretty involved process? Ay ideas which channels / hoops to jump though on something like this?

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I was wanting to create a new logo design for my hive products I sell at the farm market. I only sell a few hundred pounds of honey and a few other bee re-lated products each summer...

I was wanting to try making some soap this winter and noticed the wooden soap mold sold by brushy mountain. I didn't understand how the soap loaves were oriented by the illistrated picture in their...