I hope your Christmas was as happy as ours

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Ashley and I baked for a week. Cookies, pies, candy, and finally Will's Cheescake (you can find this recipe and more in my pantry...

QandA: Preserving shortening and Homemade V8 juice

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Preserving shortening I've read you can preserve solid shortening, thereby extending shelf life by melting and pouring in jars and vacuum sealing. Do you know...

Q and A: making corn meal and growing Hopi Pale Grey Squash

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Making corn meal My question is regarding homemade corn meal. We have a hand crank corn sheller and it works great. We also have a...

Busy, busy, busy

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Now that we're feeling better, I've been zooming around playing catch-up. I've got 132 tomato seeds started (I only have another 132 to go!...

Will went to the sale barn; we now have five more calves!

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Our neighbor, Jerry Yourceck, called Will two days ago and asked if he'd go with him to the livestock sale barn to help haul...