Q and A: canning chicken in half-pints, rubber gaskets on canners, fat for soap,...
Canning chicken in half-pints
In your segment on canning chicken in Self Reliance you mention that you have canned half pint jars of chicken. I...
I hope you have a great fourth of July!
We did, although the days leading up to it were pretty busy. On Monday, Will and I traveled to Bagley, Minnesota, to visit Jim...
Wow, it’s both cool and rainy today
But that's a good thing, as our friend Heather is saving my life by weeding in the hoop house, among our sweet peppers, which...
While Will stacks up more firewood, I’m doing photo shoots for the recipe book
Will went out again today and brought home another load of magnificent, dead, solid ash firewood. This stuff is large, with some butts being...
Finishing harvest & finding a rainbow
We're finishing up the harvest and getting the fields ready for winter. I also spotted a rainbow out by our apple orchard that I...