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Family Projects
« on: May 28, 2017, 02:57:52 AM »
So every year my family always does a cool and fun project/experiment. One year we hatched chickens, ducks, and turkeys. Another year we made our own cheese, wine, and fudge. But I'm running out of ideas... Anything interesting you guys ever do with your family that was fun or any ideas that you thought? I'm thinking about maybe buying a dehydrator and drying foods and seeing how they turn out... Open to all suggestions

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Re: Family Projects
« Reply #1 on: May 28, 2017, 04:05:52 AM »
So every year my family always does a cool and fun project/experiment. One year we hatched chickens, ducks, and turkeys. Another year we made our own cheese, wine, and fudge. But I'm running out of ideas... Anything interesting you guys ever do with your family that was fun or any ideas that you thought? I'm thinking about maybe buying a dehydrator and drying foods and seeing how they turn out... Open to all suggestions
By 'every year' do you mean over the summer months?

Build a treehouse, plant a vegetable and herb garden, make different kinds of slime and distribute it to patients in hospitals and old age homes, create a backyard obstacle course for the neighborhood kids to do (for a nominal fee), ...

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Re: Family Projects
« Reply #2 on: May 29, 2017, 07:23:24 AM »
bee keeping

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Re: Family Projects
« Reply #3 on: June 07, 2017, 11:58:04 AM »
By 'every year' do you mean over the summer months?

Build a treehouse, plant a vegetable and herb garden, make different kinds of slime and distribute it to patients in hospitals and old age homes, create a backyard obstacle course for the neighborhood kids to do (for a nominal fee), ...

No I mean either throughout the whole year or only for a couple of months. Doesnt have to be summer. I would do those activities, but those aren't so much fun. I want to do like extraordinary stuff.

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Re: Family Projects
« Reply #4 on: June 07, 2017, 12:17:15 PM »
If they are into nature, you can try to attract birds to your backyard via feeders, birdhouses, water basins, planting various shrubs/vines  that produce nectar/seed to attract hummingbirds and other species. A glass backed window feeder that suctions to the glass provides a great viewing opportunity. If you do get kosher birds to nest, possibly you can do shluach hakan but ask your LOR regarding being mafkir them first.

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Re: Family Projects
« Reply #5 on: June 07, 2017, 12:21:40 PM »
If they are into nature, you can try to attract birds to your backyard via feeders, birdhouses, water basins, planting various shrubs/vines  that produce nectar/seed to attract hummingbirds and other species. A glass backed window feeder that suctions to the glass provides a great viewing opportunity. If you do get kosher birds to nest, possibly you can do shluach hakan but ask your LOR regarding being mafkir them first.
Yup. The cats/raccoons will thank you. We has about 1 dead bird/month, and It was my job to remove them, so now we do n0t put out food for the birds anymore.
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Re: Family Projects
« Reply #6 on: June 07, 2017, 12:28:37 PM »
Yup. The cats/raccoons will thank you. We has about 1 dead bird/month, and It was my job to remove them, so now we do n0t put out food for the birds anymore.

If you hang the feeders you should be okay. Fat greedy Squirrels are the biggest issue, but that's more of an issue in Brooklyn than Lakewood. Not sure where the OP is from.

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Re: Family Projects
« Reply #7 on: June 07, 2017, 01:32:56 PM »
If you hang the feeders you should be okay. Fat greedy Squirrels are the biggest issue, but that's more of an issue in Brooklyn than Lakewood. Not sure where the OP is from.
I hung them, but the birds made a mess, and the chipmunks/squirrels would eat the shirayim that dropped.
I think that the cats would wait for a bird to start pecking fom the ground, and then attack.
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Re: Family Projects
« Reply #8 on: June 07, 2017, 04:50:01 PM »
Dog breeding
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Re: Family Projects
« Reply #9 on: June 07, 2017, 06:30:35 PM »
If you hang the feeders you should be okay. Fat greedy Squirrels are the biggest issue, but that's more of an issue in Brooklyn than Lakewood. Not sure where the OP is from.
His location states la

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Re: Family Projects
« Reply #10 on: June 07, 2017, 06:50:49 PM »
Fish farm in your bathtub
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Re: Family Projects
« Reply #11 on: June 07, 2017, 08:57:16 PM »

Fish farm in your bathtub
Backyard Aquaponics
Sounds really interesting. But not for NY winters.




It's a system where you have a planter atop a fish tank.
The planter's runoff adds nutrients to the water so the fish grow, and the nitrogen and other fish by products give the plants the nutrients they need.
A closed, symbiotic system.  Produces produce and fish.


I have a PDF I got off the internet: THE IBC OF AQUAPONICS that's too large to attach.
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Re: Family Projects
« Reply #12 on: June 08, 2017, 12:57:13 PM »
Pick your own berries and make jam.
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Re: Family Projects
« Reply #13 on: June 08, 2017, 02:26:00 PM »
Backyard Aquaponics
Sounds really interesting. But not for NY winters.




It's a system where you have a planter atop a fish tank.
The planter's runoff adds nutrients to the water so the fish grow, and the nitrogen and other fish by products give the plants the nutrients they need.
A closed, symbiotic system.  Produces produce and fish.


I have a PDF I got off the internet: THE IBC OF AQUAPONICS that's too large to attach.

Nice find! OP is in LA so winter shouldn't be a problem. Those in NY, if you must do this, do it in the tub (so tilapia, not tuna)
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Re: Family Projects
« Reply #14 on: June 08, 2017, 02:39:04 PM »
Build a clay pizza oven

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Re: Family Projects
« Reply #15 on: June 08, 2017, 02:55:32 PM »
Correct, Boston restaurants are decent though.

Just not the pizza

Build a clay pizza oven
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Re: Family Projects
« Reply #16 on: June 08, 2017, 05:04:45 PM »
Build a clay pizza oven


I've enjoyed a bunch of interesting things from this channel, the pizza oven being one of them (just watching, wouldn't have space to build it anyway).

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Re: Family Projects
« Reply #17 on: June 08, 2017, 05:29:34 PM »
Check out polymer clay. You could make some great stuff with it. Short-term projects like mezuzah holders, light switch covers, little mentchies. Long-term stuff like doll houses with miniature furniture. The possibilities are endless.... You might get addicted.
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Re: Family Projects
« Reply #18 on: June 08, 2017, 05:45:02 PM »
You cant make these things up. Only on DDF.

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Re: Family Projects
« Reply #19 on: June 08, 2017, 05:45:45 PM »
There are tons of crafts/hobbies you can get into, why not browse Michael's or AC Moore with the kids and see what grabs you?
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