Q and A: removing tree stumps and size of pressure canner

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Removing tree stumps I have been a huge fan of yours and a subscriber to Backwoods Home for many, many years. In fact, Backwoods is the only magazine I subscribe to -- can't afford any...

We’re starting our first serious harvest

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While I've been pulling in Costata Romanesco summer squash for a month now, along with harvesting lettuce and lots of asparagus (which I also canned up), our main gardens' first big harvest is tomatoes....

Q and A: Canning meats

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Canning sausage patties I processed 17 pints of sausage patties. I browned them and then put 4 Tbsp. of water and fat from the pan (as you suggested in an article I read) into each...

Q and A: storing flour, canning cheese, and Tattler lid update

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Storing flour Would appreciate knowing if it is good to store King Arthur milled unbleached white flour in 5-galllon food-grade buckets. I have been storing it in our freezers, which works fine, but can't fit...

Homesteading isn’t all peaches and cream — sometimes it’s weeds and sour milk.

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Generally homesteading is a wonderfully fulfilling life. That's until you go out first thing in the dewy morning to see six cows happily munching down the last of the Seneca Sunrise sweet corn in...