The canning has just begun
We've been so busy canning this past week! Alisha and I have canned tons of blueberries, blueberry jam, chokecherry jelly, bronco cherry jelly, and more Provider beans. I've had to totally rearrange some of...
Q and A: canning sausage and three sisters planting
Canning sausage
Can sausage be canned like ground beef? No one here likes sausage patties but do like sausage gravy and soup. Canned the same as ground beef?
Hail here shredded the corn leaves and put...
Our fruit, both tame and wild is … well … running wild
We are so tickled that we are getting plenty of fruit this summer. I've been making pin cherry jelly from our wild pin cherries. They are so RED and jewel-like that I love picking...
Everyone’s enjoying the sun
I noticed our "wild" roosters (the ones who refuse to live in the chicken coop) sitting out in the sun in front of the storage barn on hay piled there. They were taking full...
Q and A: Green tomatoes and pizza sauce, unusual jellies, and pie pumpkins
Green tomatoes and pizza sauce
I've picked every tomato in the patch in preparation for our first killing frost this weekend. Most will ripen up fine, but there will be lots of little green ones...