Back from the Denver Self Reliance Expo and back to work
I had a great time at the Expo, meeting both old Backwoods Home family and new subscribers. And I got a chance to visit...
Q and A: pressure canner trouble and planting heirloom vegetables
Pressure canner trouble
I ordered a Presto canner and tried it out first to make sure I could keep the pressure at 10 lbs as...
The heavy rains flooded our small town of Cook
Those 7 to 10-inch pouring rains made things around here sloppy but in the small town of Cook, "our" town of 600, things took...
By being neighborly, we get help with our storage building
For three years now, my 18 year old son, David, has been helping our 80+ year old neighbor, Jerry Yourczek, make hay. He's learned...
We now own the forty acres where the big pines live
On Tuesday morning, we became the proud owners of the Big Pine Forty. Or in other words, we signed to become deeper in debt....