Q and A: Cooking turkey in a pressure cooker and planting fruit trees
Cooking turkey in a pressure cooker
I recently got a lot of frozen turkeys for Christmas and in our family we only care for the white meat. Rather than waste the dark I wanted to...
Q and A: chili sauce too hot, canning brine, and crumbly biscuits
Chili sauce too hot
I have just made some fermented chili sauce that I would like to can. I made it too hot and I am wondering if you have any suggestions for making it...
Yep, it’s still raining
But luckily, we had a fairly nice day on Saturday when son, Bill, and his family came up for a visit. He and Mason had gone to the recycling center to leave off some...
Our cover crops are doing great!
We planted cover crops in the orchard (wheat, a small strip of oats and alfalfa) and peas in the future strawberry bed in the new house garden. We did this to help...
Holy cow, winter came with a bang again this year
Winter actually came about three weeks earlier than usual this year! (Yeah, sure, we were ready … Uh huh.) Where our "normal" high temperature is 50° F, we've been very lucky to see 30,...