We hope everyone had a happy Labor Day
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
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
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
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
Will bummed me out this morning. He got up earlier than I did and saw our first robin in the tree in our backyard....