Hidden Oaks Farm KY

10/18/2024

SO TRUE

02/11/2024

Help save the BEES

02/04/2024

01/21/2024

Good to know!

01/11/2024

Garden corn for dinner, it makes me miss summer so much!

What is your favorite food to can or freeze for the winter months?

01/04/2024

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GRANDMA'S APRON
The principle use of Grandma's apron was to protect the dress underneath because she only had a few. It was also because it was easier to wash aprons than dresses and aprons used less material. But along with that, it served as a potholder for removing hot pans from the oven.
It was wonderful for drying children's tears, and on occasion was even used for cleaning out dirty ears.
From the chicken coop, the apron was used for carrying eggs, fussy chicks, and sometimes half-hatched eggs to be finished in the warming oven.
When company came, those aprons were ideal hiding places for shy kids..
And when the weather was cold, Grandma wrapped it around her arms.
Those big old aprons wiped many a perspiring brow, bent over the hot wood stove.
Chips and kindling wood were brought into the kitchen in that apron.
From the garden, it carried all sorts of vegetables. After the peas had been shelled, it carried out the hulls.
In the fall, the apron was used to bring in apples that had fallen from the trees.
When unexpected company drove up the road, it was surprising how much furniture that old apron could dust in a matter of seconds.
When dinner was ready, Grandma walked out onto the porch, waved her apron, and the men folk knew it was time to come in from the fields to dinner.
Grandma used to set her hot baked apple pies on the window sill to cool.
It will be a long time before someone invents something that will replace that 'old-time apron' that served so many purposes.
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01/03/2024

When it comes down to it, the only knowledge that really matters is how to purify water, how to grow your own food, how to cook and how to build.
And funnily enough, we’re not taught any of that in school.

🤔 Interested in how early you can plant potatoes? I have been hearing you can plant them very early spring is this true? I found these on amazing… Had anyone used these? Do these work?

12/31/2023

Just a little tid-bit of info to help ☺️