Q and A: canning turkey and chicken stock, rhubarb from seed, and grass-fed steer
Canning turkey and chicken stock
I'm a newbie to pressure canning, and you are right Jackie, it is addictive! I have a question about my first canning adventure which was turkey and chicken stock. The...
The wheat is heading out and the black raspberries are ripe
With the rain we've had, along with the hot weather, our whole homestead is booming. Yesterday, I went out to the orchard to cut the goats an armload of oats and clover from the...
Q and A: Home-canned tuna, market baskets, and lima beans
Home-canned tuna
I love the idea of canning fresh tuna. But I want tuna for tuna salad. Would home canned tuna need to be heated to boiling for 15 minutes before eating. And wouldn't that...
The barn starts to go up!
After months of site prep work, moving tons of gravel to raise the barn site and level it off, Will is finally ready to begin building! He had sixteen holes, four feet deep, bored...
We took a break from spring planting for a road trip
The reason for the "road trip" was to look at a POA (Pony of the Americas — appaloosa pony) my sister found advertised on Craigslist. You'll remember our granddaughter, Ava, loves horses and really...