Sorry to have missed blogging but this homestead got real busy!
Wow, what a week. First off, our homesteading apprentice, Christian, up and left. You can take the boy out of the city but not the city out of the boy. Homesteading just wasn't his...
There’s a bear in the raspberry patch!
Really. Will and I are picking wild raspberries up on our ridge. They are really good this year—large and juicy. Usually they are hardly worth picking, but this year they're wonderful. So we pick...
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. ...
Q and A: canning ham and dehydrated tomatoes for spaghetti sauce
Canning ham
I recently got a deal on canned ham; can I re-can this into glass jars? If so, how? Also, have you ever made carrot kraut? How?
Sandy Rowland
Linconton, North Carolina
You bet you can re-can...
Sometimes I feel like I have a rocket strapped to my back that I...
You know we've been really busy lately, harvesting both crops and seed, but then David had lined up a huge JLG lift from work to help get the metal roofing and trim on the...