Monthly Archives: February 2013
Q and A: homesteading skills and heating canned bacon
Homesteading skills
I was wondering if you and Will could pass on which "trade" skill you would think is the one most important to have...
Q and A: canning sauerkraut with meat and dehydrating milk
Canning sauerkraut with meat
My mother has passed down a recipe with sauerkraut, bacon, onion, brown sugar, and kielbasa. You take this mixture, wrap it...
Q and A: canning ground meat and planting apple seeds
Canning ground meat
I pressure dry-canned 4 quarts of ground meat. I cooked the meat, drained what little fat there was, placed in hot sterilized...
Our homestead meat sales are taking off (and producing a few...
To offset some of our homestead feed expenses, we began raising extra steers and pigs each year, selling quarters and halves of meat (nicely...
Q and A: vacuum sealing brown rice, dehydrating squash, and bergamot...
Vacuum sealing brown rice
When using a vacuum sealer with jar attachment, must brown rice be preheated? When using a vacuum sealer with jar attachment,...