While Will stacks up more firewood, I’m doing photo shoots for the recipe book

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Will went out again today and brought home another load of magnificent, dead, solid ash firewood. This stuff is large, with some butts being...

Q and A: adding eggshells to your compost and canning chili peppers

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Adding eggshells to your compost Do I need to pre-treat eggshells before adding them to my garden as compost? I feel like I'm wasting something...

Q and A: canning caramels and blight on tomatoes

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Canning caramel I have checked the archives and your canning book, but still wondering about canning caramel, not caramel sauce. My husband found a great...

Q and A: what to grow in a shady area and storing canned goods...

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What to grow in a shady area Our homestead is very small, and in a biggish city, Youngstown, OH. We bought a fixer-upper here about...

Q and A: Stringless pole beans and pressure cookers not made for canning

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Stringless pole beans Every time I have grown pole green beans they have a lot of strings in the pod. I sure would like to...