Well, it froze!

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We'd been expecting a freeze and preparing mightily for it, but when we woke up to white on the grass, it was still sort of a shock. We did all we could, covering the...

Q and A: canning partially frozen meat and double stacking jars in the pressure...

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Canning partially frozen meat My freezer went on the fritz, so I wanted to can up all the meat I had in there before it went bad. Now, because I had so much and was...

Q and A: saving seed from corn and water level in canner

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Saving seed from corn I planted a small patch of rainbow earth tones dent corn this year. I have it isolated from our sweet corn by over 100 ft, and the house is between...

Q and A: lettuce, beans, peas, onions, and garlic and canning curried goat

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Lettuce, beans, peas, onions, and garlic Does leaf lettuce and stinging nettle cross pollinate? I found both red and green leaf lettuce with stickers on the back of the leaves today. One is starting to...

It’s not snowing yet so Will and I are doing garden cleanup

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It's cold and cloudy so we're trying to get the garden finished up and put to bed for winter. Will pulled the tomato cages and dumped the old vines into a couple of piles...