We hope everyone had a happy Labor Day

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We laugh because we were laboring harder yesterday than usual. You see we have Arctic cold dropping down on us on Wednesday night. They're...

Q and A: making ketchup, peach trees, and bread and butter pickles

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Making ketchup In your book, "Growing and Canning Your Own Food," the Ketchup recipe on page 114 calls for 1 gallon chopped, peeled and cored...

Q and A: broken egg yolks and wrinkled bean seeds

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Broken egg yolks In the last few months most of our eggs have broken yolks when cracked to fry. Nothing else is wrong with the...

Q and A: coating cheese with wax, open-pollinated plants, canning cheese, and prepper shows

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Coating cheese with wax When you make cheese, do you coat it with wax for aging? I've done it both ways and am usually not...

Spring is officially here — we saw robins today

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Will bummed me out this morning. He got up earlier than I did and saw our first robin in the tree in our backyard....