Q and A: tallow candles, canning tomato soup, and apple trees
Tallow candles
Have you ever made candles from rendered tallow? I made 3 container candles in small jars as an experiment. They looked beautiful, but they only burned for about 20 minutes until the wicks...
It must be spring; the bulldozer started!
Well it feels like spring. Today it was 43 degrees and melting snow like crazy. I had transplanted peppers all afternoon in the sunshine, in the greenhouse. When David got home from school, he...
Q and A: growing corn for cornmeal and layering jars in canner
Growing corn for cornmeal
I am growing dent corn to make corn meal. I am not sure when to harvest and how to prepare the corn for grinding.
Daniel Jones
Cullowhee, North Carolina
Leave the ears on the...
Rain is coming so we postponed haying
Meanwhile, Will and Eric are setting trusses up on the new barn. How exciting! After all this time, it's starting to quickly look like a barn! And that gives us hope that maybe we'll...
Finally, we’re sort of getting caught up
Will has nearly all of our firewood cut up. We split it, then he hauled it into a huge pile in the woodshed, so it stays dry. Now he has to get it stacked....