Q and A: Canning butter and growing basil

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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

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  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

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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

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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!

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With temperatures in the high sixties and not freezing at night, our three feet of snow has been melting fast. And yesterday for the...