Canning tomatoes, growing potatoes, and ham and beans recipe
Canning tomatoes
I am canning tomatoes for the first time. We are blanching the tomatoes and peeling the skin off but leaving them whole and...
Q and A: feeding pumpkins to cattle, making bread, and trimming pigs’ feet
Feeding pumpkins to cattle
How do you feed pumpkins to cattle? Do you chop it, cook it, or just throw it into feed troughs whole?...
Every day is a harvest day now
As fall approaches, our crops are ripening in earnest. The blackbirds are again attacking our corn crops, most of all, the Mandan Lavender Parching...
It comes every year, but it always hurts
The FREEZE. Last week we not only had a frost, which we prepared for by covering all crops we could with plastic tarps, but...
Q and A: stewing hens and canning at a higher altitude
Stewing hens
Just got done putting my 6 hens in the freezer. What is your best recipe for a stewing hen? They were 3 years...