Monthly Archives: September 2013
Q and A: canning nopales and vitamin C to keep fruit...
Canning nopales
Do you have any information on canning nopales? What about dehydrating?
Shirley Sandquist
Elwood, Illinois
Nopales (or prickly pear cactus pads) are best canned as pickled....
It comes every year, but it always hurts
The FREEZE. Last week we not only had a frost, which we prepared for by covering all crops we could with plastic tarps, but...
Q and A: jar quantity and size, good wood cookstove, and...
Jar quantity and size
I purchased your book Growing and Canning Your Own Food. Good book but I can't find where in the recipes for...
Q and A: goat treats and stocky goats
Goat treats
We have an abundance of corn this year. Would it be OK to feed our goats the green corn stalks and then the...
Q and A: baby Lima beans not producing and weather-predicting beavers
Baby Lima beans not producing
Have you ever had a problem with baby limas (we call them butterbeans here in Virginia) not producing pods? I...