All on the homestead is not about work

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This time of the year is the beginning of serious food preservation for me. Unfortunately, a lot of folks get the mistaken idea that...

Q and A: learning to make cheese, dandelion syrup, and starting seeds in peat...

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Learning to make cheese I would really like to try a cheese making class. One where you spend the whole day or weekend actually making...

The peppers are coming up

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After only five days, our peppers are popping up. Literally — they just show their "backs," then up they pop. Yesterday I took some...

Finally, the rain has stopped … Temporarily

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While the gardens were still pretty wet from the torrential rain we experienced last week, I was able to get all of our pepper...

We’re digging potatoes today, with a new family member

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It's unseasonably warm today, sunny and 75 degrees. A perfect day to get those potatoes out of the ground and down in the basement....