Q and A: shelf life of apple juice and Canada Crookneck seeds

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Shelf life of apple juice If using a Mehu-Liisa to extract apple juice, is draining the hot liquid into a properly cleaned and heated jar with a two piece canning lid all that is needed?...

Are we having fun yet?

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Well, yes, actually. We're still drywalling and mudding. But the good news is that we also have our new woodstove hooked up and heating! And it does a good job, too. We even took...

Q and A: keeping a refrigerator working in a cold environment, early Fall weather,...

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Keeping a refrigerator working in a cold environment I heard that they don't make a refrigerator/freezer that can be used in a cabin that is allowed to get cooler than 55 degrees. We have been...

Q and A: False blossoms on zucchini and storing squash

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False blossoms on zucchini My neighbor planted zucchini squash, the plants have grown well, but are producing a lot of false blossoms and not very many squash. He asks me what could cause this, of...

With our guest back home, we’re playing catch-up

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Of course, when you have company of any kind, everything switches mode from "normal" to "guest." And, when my daughter Monique, arrived, that's just what happened. I drove her all over our wonderful northland,...