Monthly Archives: April 2014
Q and A: storing peanuts, canning ham, and jars still bubbling...
Storing peanuts
I would like to store peanuts for long term use. Should I open the jars and oven can them? If so, using what...
It was sixty degrees and sunny for Easter
All we could think was … FINALLY! My sons, Bill (and his family) and David, were here for Easter dinner and we all ate...
Another cold snap lets me work inside this week
Our temperature dived way down to a low of 7 degrees! Not fun to work outside so I did a lot of transplanting; seven...
After two months with a frozen water line, we have water!
But our water line is still frozen. How can that be? My inventive husband saw that our spring catchment basin was nearly unfrozen and...
Q and A: making cheese, introducing new chickens to the flock,...
Making cheese
Upon moving to the country and starting up our farmstead, I went ahead and purchased some cheese making equipment and a book. Problem...