Q and A: pickling crocks and pressure canning advice

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Pickling crocks Do you use pickling crocks for sauerkraut or pickles? Wil Scarrow No. I'm old fashioned and just use my solid old crocks or food-grade plastic...

Rain is coming so we postponed haying

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Meanwhile, Will and Eric are setting trusses up on the new barn. How exciting! After all this time, it's starting to quickly look like...

Q and A: jar sizes in canner and harvesting asparagus

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Jar sizes in canner I have a question concerning jars. Today I was putting up potatoes in qt. wide mouth jars. Ran short by one...

Will’s here and I’m canning sweet corn like mad…while he plays on the bulldozer

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My handsome and adorable boyfriend, Will, flew in on Thursday and I haven't sat still since! Our sweet corn suffered during the recent freeze,...

Q and A: black growth on jar lids and woodpeckers

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Black growth on jar lids I have been raw packing and canning meat for years and have never encountered this before. I am finding a...