Q and A: canning nuts, fly in milk pail, and Hopi Pale Grey squash

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Canning nuts Can you can sliced or slivered almonds? Also can you can raw peanuts? I have canned walnuts using your recipe and was wondering...

We’ve been filling many seed orders

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We wait all fall and a lot of the winter until our new seed catalog comes out in anticipation of filling lots of seed...

Our tomatoes and peppers are getting ripe

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With those ripening crops, I've been busy taking out seed to save for our seed business. I always take seed from the earliest and...

Q and A: strange eggshells and converting pasture to garden

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Strange eggshells I have one hen that lays really large eggs but the shells feel very thin. The eggs feel light especially for their size....

The sun is out, and the birds are singing

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I just came in from outside. It's such a beautiful spring day! I heard the first Red-winged Blackbirds singing this morning and our pair...