The great chicken coop makeover….with recycled material of course!
With winter right around the corner....or a couple of corners, I hope.....I decided our hens would like a warmer coop. They survived the last couple of winters, but just the same, an uninsulated coop...
We’re setting out tomatoes
But we're setting them out in Wall O' Waters. (If you'd like more information on using Wall O' Water plant protection, check out my article about them in the Fourteenth Year Anthology.) After all,...
We had a hard frost but no damage
At 5 a.m. I went outside and saw heavy frost on the roof and on the windshield of our Subaru. And this was on top of the ridge; our garden is down below where...
Q and A: canning spaghetti sauce, canning potatoes, and cucumber beetles
Canning spaghetti sauce
Why is it okay to water bath can salsa but not spaghetti sauce?
Katie Gilbert
Milo, Iowa
You can certainly can spaghetti sauce without meat in a boiling water bath canner but many experts...
Sorry to have missed blogging but this homestead got real busy!
Wow, what a week. First off, our homesteading apprentice, Christian, up and left. You can take the boy out of the city but not the city out of the boy. Homesteading just wasn't his...