With a cow, we really have big compost piles!

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Not only does a milk cow give us all of the dairy products we can imagine, she gives plenty of manure too! Some folks might not think that is a good thing, but we...

Canning keeps on going on…

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…but we're also still harvesting seeds. Today Ashley and I shelled two gallons of beautiful Bear Island Chippewa corn. I just can't get over how beautiful it is and how fat those colorful kernels...

Boy did we get clobbered by snow!

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You know that storm that was heading for us?  Well it got here.  And how!  Saturday night it started.  Then by Sunday morning, we had a foot and the snow was still...

Q and A: baking bread and controlling bamboo

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Baking bread A reader recently asked you a question about the bread she bakes. She said that she gets a large pocket under the top crust, and that when she cuts the bread, the crust...

Q and A: Dry canning and small squash

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Dry canning When dry canning can you do a product that has yeast? Also, this may be crazy but as another emergency water source could you hot water bath water as a way for long...