It must be spring; the bulldozer started!

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Well it feels like spring.  Today it was 43 degrees and melting snow like crazy.  I had transplanted peppers all afternoon in the sunshine,...

Our first baby born this year

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While we're still rejoicing at the birth of Bill and Kelly's son, Mason, we had our very own baby yesterday.  Okay, so it's a...

Q and A: cracked jars, stocking a pond, and animals on the homestead

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Cracked jars You've created a new canning monster! But in the last two canning sessions, four jars have cracked in the pressure canner. What...

Our lovely onions join our other pantry food

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Our onions did so much better this year. Last year, most of our onions went double and many had soft neck rot, due to...

Q and A: using lard or tallow and canning on a ceramic cooktop

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Using lard or tallow I got the book on LARD from Grit magazine but it said nothing about using tallow from beef instead of lard...