Q and A: fruit tree recommendation and life of canned food

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Fruit tree recommendation I live in Central Oregon in a high desert, where we have cold long winters and hot summers. I would like to...

We finally had our big freeze

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Sunday night, it dropped down to 27 degrees F. A clear sky made it inevitable. Bummer! Luckily, we had already rushed around and gotten...

We love off-season canning!

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Most folks think of canning as only something you do in the fall when harvest is in. Sure, I do a lot more canning...

Q and A: leaving rings on jars in storage, canning pinto beans, and growing...

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Leaving rings on jars in storage Our family butchered a 500+ pound hog this past weekend, and we were able to render 30+ quarts of...

The cows are now happily roaming the new pasture in the Wolf forty

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After a lot of hard work, Will now has the cows out on the Wolf forty, munching grass, clover, and seedling poplar trees with...