Q and A: canning dense foods and black cherries
Canning dense foods
I put up many different things for our family. My rule of thumb is always process for the ingredient which has the longest time associated with it, such meat in pasta sauce...
We’re madly trying to get our 2020 Seed Treasures catalog finished
Where do the days go, anyway? I'm thinking we have to give up sleeping or something, between normal homestead chores, canning, and getting ready for the 2020 garden. Already we're starting to get seed...
Oh my, did I ever get a deal
Last week, I found fire-roasted green chile peppers, canned in 24-ounce containers on Facebook Marketplace. My daughter-in-law, Kelly Jo picked them up for me and David brought them up here after deer hunting down...
There’s snow on the ground this morning
Boy, am I ever glad we dug carrots yesterday! They were frozen in the ground so I was hesitant as to their quality. After all, this is the very latest I've ever dug carrots....
So it’s January? We’re thinking of spring already
While I was canning up a bunch of hamburger, Will was clearing another patch of logged-over ground for a new pasture. This one is below the goat pasture, and when fenced, will give us...