Q and A: canning beans, transplanting fruit trees, and canning with kids
Canning beans
I decided to can up several kinds of beans to save heat in the kitchen during the summer. They all look good but...
The sun’s out and the sandhill cranes are flying
I was standing by the cow corral gate, waiting for Will to come with the tractor and another big round bale of hay when...
We are enjoying the cool day
After a summer with temperatures in the high 80s and 90s, it was such a relief to have a nice cool, windy day today....
After Spring arrived, we got dumped on by a foot of snow.
Boy, were we bummed! Just when all the grass was showing in the yard and the cows were dancing with joy, we got a...
Q and A: preserving figs and blossom end rot on tomatoes
Preserving figs
We have so many figs this year. I have canned figs, made fig jam, preserves, conserve, and strawberry fig jam. I am going...