Q and A: Wood burners, Peach preserves, Dry beans, and Pumpkin puree
Wood burners
Have you used a wood burner with a jetstove.com chimney? They are supposed to be smokeless and put out twice the heat. I...
Well, it froze!
We knew it was only a matter of time and the weather forecast called for a freeze warning for our area. So, taking no...
Q and A: Canning pinto beans and planting asparagus
Canning pinto beans
I received a new All American pressure canner for Christmas and want to do pinto beans in pints for my first batch;...
I advertised my young buck goat and nearly got scammed!
Living in the backwoods, I am seldom exposed to the unsavory segment of the population; no robberies, drugs, identity thefts, etc. But this week,...
We may be in northern Minnesota, but we’ve already got tomatoes on the vine!
Okay, okay, so the plants are in containers. I cannot tell a lie. When it was time to transplant the tomatoes and peppers this...