Q and A: Home-canned tuna, market baskets, and lima beans
Home-canned tuna
I love the idea of canning fresh tuna. But I want tuna for tuna salad. Would home canned tuna need to be heated to boiling for 15 minutes before eating. And wouldn't that...
Q and A: grafting pears and food-grade bags
Grafting pears
Have you used rootstock from Bradford pear? They are considered a pest in north Georgia. I have them coming all around my property. Two years ago I grafted an Orient pear into a...
Will and I took a trip to the back of the Big Pines forty...
It was nice yesterday so Will took me out to see a spot he'd discovered while making ATV trails through the dead, blown-down fir on our new Big Pines forty. It was a gentle...
Our rains are here, in full force
All I've got to say is "Yuck!" We're madly trying to continue our harvest but it's nearly impossible when it's pouring rain every day. I've still got plenty of dry bean seed to harvest...
We are now enjoying fresh goat milk again
I sold two of my adult milking does, Luna and Velvet, so we haven't had goat milk on the table. Fawn, a yearling, freshened just before Buffy. We sold Fawn's twin does, as they...