I spent the afternoon sorting and storing our huge potato crop
After a spring of figuring we'd have NO potatoes in the cellar, here I am sorting through the 550 pounds of potatoes we ended up with! We hurriedly picked the crop when severe freezing...
The canning has just begun
We've been so busy canning this past week! Alisha and I have canned tons of blueberries, blueberry jam, chokecherry jelly, bronco cherry jelly, and more Provider beans. I've had to totally rearrange some of...
Spring brings lots of work
We've been hugely busy now that the snow's gone (for now anyway!) and the weather has warmed up. We had saved up over winter and bought a trailer load of livestock panels and pipe...
Q and A: drying beans and canning green tomatoes
Drying beans
I planted cranberry bean for the first time this year. The majority of them dried fine in their shells but some are still in green shells (even thought I dried them in dehydrator)...
Winter’s coming like a freight train
And we're hustling around, trying to get everything done before it hits. Today, Will and Hondo went to Matt's clearcut again and brought home another load of firewood. That pile is getting bigger and...