Food time at Jackie and Will’s homestead
It just dawned on me this morning -- our entire homestead is about food right now! Will is hauling in the last of our round bales of hay for the animals. We are madly...
Q and A: canning tomatoes, canning root vegetables, raised beds and converting a hayfield
Canning tomatoes
I am canning tomatoes. Of course it seems time consuming. This year, for one batch I have pureed the entire tomato (minus the core) in the food processor and then proceeded to canning...
Just when things are going great …
Will has been using all his spare time to push out encroaching brush in one of the neighbor's hayfields that we rent. Some of the previous folks who cut hay on the field slowly...
Well, it froze!
We'd been expecting a freeze and preparing mightily for it, but when we woke up to white on the grass, it was still sort of a shock. We did all we could, covering the...
Winter’s still here, although it’s really only fall
Last night we had a temperature of 7° F. Holy cow, it's not even the end of the month yet — October, that is! We usually are in the fifties with lows in the...