Q and A: Canning peanut butter, debarking logs, and making lard
Canning peanut butter
Can I can homemade peanut butter? If so and how?
Ann Hazelett
Litchfield Park, Arizona
Sorry, but this is one of those very dense foods that is not safe to home can. You can't be...
Q and A: Food and recipe questions
Storing beans
From a survival standpoint, what do you recommend - dry beans or home canned beans?
Karen Mallinger
Negaunee, Michigan
Both. I store lots of both. The home canned beans are great for quick meals, emergency or...
Today we doubled our water storage
Two weeks ago, just before I flew out to Washington to visit Will, we had our generator in the shop. When we went to pick it up, our carpenter friend, Tom, went with us. ...
We’re getting so much done
With Alisha's cheerful and enthusiastic help, we're sure getting a lot done this summer. Like I've said, she's a whirlwind berry picker/garden harvester. Yesterday she picked the Provider beans again and got a huge,...
Harvest continues and a new crop is growing INSIDE
I saved a turkey roasting pan full of sliced pumpkin pieces from our huge pumpkin to dehydrate. As the temperatures were hot and dry (unusual for this time of year in northern Minnesota!), I...