Monthly Archives: January 2012
Q and A: Preserving juice, growing tomatoes, and preserving by confiting
Preserving juice
What would be the best way to preserve juice in wine/sparkling cider bottles? I've been a winemaker for several years, and would like...
I’m packing for the NPSA Conference…with a little help
Tomorrow, I'm flying to Aberdeen, South Dakota, for the Northern Plains Sustainable Agriculture conference so today I'm madly packing (www.npsas.org/news-events/winter-conference.html. Click on the conference...
Q and A: Compost freezing, Tattler lids, and dirty windows
Compost freezing
We are in Colorado near the mountains. We have many bags of excess compost/steer manure from when we purchased and had trees planted...
Will’s haul from the dump
Even though it's snowing like mad, (five inches already) Will and I drove our car to the dump on Saturday, and found that a...
Will revised the wood-fired stock tank heater
Although Will's wood-fired stock tank heater worked pretty well, he knew it could do better. Roughly patterned after the "rocket stove," the new one...