Q and A: canning crushed tomatoes and feeding a nursing sow
Canning crushed tomatoes
I just canned some crushed tomatoes and realize that I didn't read the directions carefully. I added the lemon juice after I put in the tomatoes, instead of putting it in the...
We’re finally getting some hay in
After such a rainy end to the drought, Will has finally been able to get hay cut and baled. On Friday, he, David, and Blake put about 150 square bales into the barn and...
The beavers are busy and so are we
The beavers are telling us it's going to be quite a winter!
All of the beaver families around here are building very big lodges and are damming up higher and higher. And their brush, which...
You asked for it! Our first homesteading seminar!
A lot of you have been asking if we would consider doing a homesteading seminar here at our place. Before this, we just didn't have enough time because of all of our ongoing projects....
It’s still raining
Boy is it hard to get things done outside when it's raining all day, every day. Grump, grump, grump! I pulled our last carrots and found that the deer had gotten in the open...