Q and A: canning broth, cloudy broth, canning potatoes, and canning nopales

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Canning broth When canning with chicken or beef stock would I consider this meat and use the higher canning time required? Judith Almand Lithia, Florida No....

Q and A: elderberry syrup, candied dill pickles, and growing sweet potatoes

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Elderberry syrup I have a questions about elderberry syrup for the flu. All the recipes I have found on line start with either fresh...

Q and A: freezing then canning beans, Hickory King corn, and duck manure fertilizer

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Freezing then canning beans We garden in five 4x8 raised beds in our small backyard and this year we are trying bush beans in one...

We got our pond!

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This Friday, our friend, Dale Rinne, brought his excavator over and not only dug out the footings for Will's bridge over the creek, but...

The woodshed’s about full, as are our two other smaller woodsheds

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It's sunny out today and we're out getting yet more firewood. Hey, if it's available and the weather's nice, why not? Better to have...