Monthly Archives: January 2013
Q and A: excess potatoes, problem with chickens, and cheese from...
Excess potatoes
My dad just received 250 lbs of free potatoes. We have given a lot of them to family and friends but still have...
Q and A: canning sauerkraut, fish antibiotics, and heating canned meat...
Canning sauerkraut
I was given a fermentation crock pot for Christmas and I have a batch of sauerkraut doing its thing now. Can I can...
Q and A: canning dried beans, planting asparagus, and dried citrus...
Canning dried beans
It is not so easy to find cooking method to can dried beans in a pressure cooker. A good place I've found...
Q and A: canning ground venison, storing apples, and homestead advice
Canning ground venison
Some friends of ours gifted us a large amount of ground venison and venison "country" sausage. Since we have limited freezer space,...
We’re getting ready to put up the shakes
After a couple of days of sawing cedar blocks and splitting them into gorgeous shakes with his homemade froe, Will and I are getting...