Q and A: Killing the nasties, Canning bacon, and Wild strawberries
Killing the nasties
I've come late in life to food storage and I am still nervous. I have no problem doing pickles or jelly, but anything else, especially with meat in it, I'm terrified I'll...
Q and A: preserving figs and blossom end rot on tomatoes
Preserving figs
We have so many figs this year. I have canned figs, made fig jam, preserves, conserve, and strawberry fig jam. I am going to do some raspberry fig jam. Maybe you have something...
Q and A: coating cheese with wax, open-pollinated plants, canning cheese, and prepper shows
Coating cheese with wax
When you make cheese, do you coat it with wax for aging? I've done it both ways and am usually not real successful with the wax. No matter how many layers...
Will got the wind charger up and running
Will finally got a good day to put up the wind charger, after several months of it sitting in a snowbank because there was snow on the storage barn's roof, making it too dangerous...
We woke up to snow!
Holy mackerel, we heard it might happen but we went to bed thinking "gee, it's surely not going to really snow…" But snow covered the ground early this morning and temps reached 32° F....