It’s the last of June and the garden’s taking off big guns
We've been having nice heavy rains, then hot weather. Just what the garden loves. Luckily for me, who doesn't love hot weather, it cools off nicely at night. Whew! The Bristol black raspberries I...
With warmer weather here, Will’s back at work on our barn
Because there's still too much snow to get to the sawmill and/or logs, Will's been busy using some of the lumber he cut last summer to frame up both upper ends of our new...
We enjoyed another fantastic family day out at Byrns Greenhouse
For the last 11 or so years, as much of our family as possible met at the Byrns Greenhouse near Zim, Minnesota, for our family buy-them-out-of-flowers day. Okay, so it seems to me! As...
I advertised my young buck goat and nearly got scammed!
Living in the backwoods, I am seldom exposed to the unsavory segment of the population; no robberies, drugs, identity thefts, etc. But this week, I was hit by a scammer through an ad I'd...
Q and A: canning spaghetti sauce, canning potatoes, and cucumber beetles
Canning spaghetti sauce
Why is it okay to water bath can salsa but not spaghetti sauce?
Katie Gilbert
Milo, Iowa
You can certainly can spaghetti sauce without meat in a boiling water bath canner but many experts...