Q and A: fruit tree recommendation and life of canned food
Fruit tree recommendation
I live in Central Oregon in a high desert, where we have cold long winters and hot summers. I would like to have a peach tree; do you have any recommendations for...
More snow and below-zero temps
As we're crawling towards spring, we've been stuck in a cold arctic spell. Last night it was -18 and today at noon, it warmed up to zero. With a wind. Plus we just got...
Q and A: growing zucchini with Hopi Pale Grey squash and canning milk
Growing zucchini with Hopi Pale Grey squash
I'm very interested in the Blue Hopi Squash and would grow only them (as far as squash goes) to keep them pure. We are into sharing ourselves and...
Beans, beans, the musical fruit, the more you eat the more you toot!
Okay, I guess you can figure out that I'm canning dry beans, huh? Well it started out pretty innocently yesterday when I thawed out the two hams I bought for .69 a pound to...
I hope everyone had a great Independence Day
After all, independence is what all of us self-reliant people are striving towards and that historical date hastened us down our paths, centuries ago. While we're thinking about the Fourth, we're also busy trying...