Monthly Archives: May 2011
QandA: Preserving shortening and Homemade V8 juice
Preserving shortening
I've read you can preserve solid shortening, thereby extending shelf life by melting and pouring in jars and vacuum sealing. Do you know...
QandA: Canning in a pressure cooker and Apple bread
Canning in a pressure cooker
…I’d like your thoughts regarding the Swiss-made Kuhn Rikon pressure cookers used as canners. I’ve included some information (and the...
QandA: Canning potato soup, Building up poor soil, and Congrats
Canning potato soup
Potato soup, can I put potatoes, onions, and celery in a quart jar and can it all together for 40 minutes? In...
We’re raising our own baby chicks this year
Every year, we've bought baby meat chicks to raise to butcher and have gotten real tired of them being so DUMB and hardly able...
QandA: Planting potatoes, Gnat invasion, and New to pressure canning
Planting potatoes
I was told by an elderly neighbor that I can not plant my tomatoes in the same place that I had potatoes last...