What a crazy week

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With the warmer weather, we've stayed busy cutting and splitting wood, picking up things, and buying a new-to-us truck. Our old plow truck is...

Q and A: corn for polenta and canning spaghetti squash

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Corn for polenta What kind of corn can I plant to dry and make the best polenta? Is it sweet corn or field corn or...

The pumpkin and squash harvest is finished

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Saturday was sunny and nice, above normal temps right into the high seventies. Wow, was it a perfect Indian summer day! Robert, a young...

Q and A: Canning duck eggs and planting peach trees

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Canning duck eggs Can duck eggs be canned the same as chicken eggs? Linda Fisher Klamath, California By "canned," I'm assuming that you're meaning canned pickled eggs? If...

Q and A: Acorns and silver tarps as mulch

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Acorns I enjoyed your blog on acorns. Just a tip: that brown yucky water aka tannin can be used to tan leather, to dye whites...