Q and A: Damp storage area, Reusable canning lids, and Drying onions

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Damp storage area Congrats on your upcoming nuptials and I wish you all of the future happiness possible. My question is: I have a sizeable quantity of Nitrogen Packed storage food and I have always had...

Q and A: auction barn calves and canning cheese

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Auction barn calves I enjoyed your article titled "Bottle-raise a calf." We just purchased a bull calf Holstein at auction. Your advice lends some confidence, but I am still worried. Calf has been with us...

Q and A: Storing apples, canning bacon, and mushy canned bacon

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Storing apples I read your article on how to store apples, and I intend to supply a link to your site on my blog. However, I have a question about the following statement where you...

The big Bill Bean is ripe

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You've been wondering when you'd get a chance to see our biggest big Bill Bean tomato? We harvested it before the chickens could get a beak on it, and it's a whopper — the...

Perfect growing weather continues

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We've been really happy with this summer. We are getting warm days, cool nights, and enough rain to keep all the gardens happy. Yesterday I spent the afternoon hunting cows though — not happy!...