Q and A: Canning butter and growing basil
Canning butter
I canned some butter over this weekend following the directions in your canning book. You say to simmer the butter to evaporate the...
Despite rain and snow, the greenhouse gets built
Our friends, Mike and Dara, came yesterday to help out. While Dara and I packaged seeds, Mike and Will set about putting the polycarbonate...
We still have 9 baby turkeys and we’re starting to roof the storage building
Despite heavy, and frequent, rains, which often spell doom to baby turkeys, our mama turkey still has nine babies in our orchard. They're feathering...
Q and A: storing lemon juice and growing potatoes
Storing lemon juice
How would you go about canning store-bought lemon juice? I assume due to the acidity that Tattler lids would come in handy...
Finally! The snow’s about gone!
With temperatures in the high sixties and not freezing at night, our three feet of snow has been melting fast. And yesterday for the...