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