Q&A: Making jelly and Growing wheat
Making jelly
For years I have enjoyed Jackie's articles, recently bought her canning book and I have a question. In the past I've put my...
Well, winter’s catching up with us a bit.
After all winter with very little snow or cold, a big winter storm is upon us. Well, they say it's a storm, but it's...
Q and A: cover cropping and making soap
Cover cropping
Most of my vegetables are growing in 4x10 foot raised beds. I have been reading about the benefits of cover cropping after harvest...
Q and A: Canning frozen vegetables, Pigweed and Lambs Quarters, and Dairy recipes
Canning frozen vegetables
Can you safely can (in jars) frozen vegetables (butter beans and purple hull peas that have been purchased from the grocer?
Betty Whitehead
Lumberton,...
Amid our spring planting, a horrible fire destroys apartment building where David’s girlfriend lives
We were busy erecting and planting our hoop houses, complaining how late we were getting that done this year due to my knee surgery...