Q and A: Odd chicken egg
Odd chicken egg
I got the craziest egg today. It is perfectly round, only the size of a yolk and the shell is very thin. Is there a reason a hen will lay an egg...
Spring is dragging its feet this year
It seems that this year, spring is dragging its feet. Or maybe we just got spoiled when it was 60 degrees a week or so ago? Each day brings another "fit and start." One...
Q and A: Stewed tomatoes, Canning chicken soup, and Chickens losing feathers
Stewed tomatoes
I hot packed 7 pints of stewed tomatoes at 10# pressure for 15 minutes. I added 2 Tbsp. of thin sliced carrots on a whim! Are they safe to eat?
Karen Gregory
Ontario, New York
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The cows got into our pumpkin/corn patch
Yesterday Will was bulldozing the horse manure in the horse pasture where we feed round bales all winter up into a compost pile. He noticed that the cows seemed to be too far north...
The flower gardens are looking great…and so is our woodpile
Besides all the great improvements going on around here, the big garden, our new house garden and keeping busy taking care of Mom, I have had a few minutes to work in the flowers....and...