Q and A: canning in half-gallon jars, over-mature green beans, and storing dehydrated foods

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Canning in half-gallon jars Do you can anything at all in jars larger than quart size? I would like to use ½ gallon jars for soups and some veggies. Judi Almand Brandon, Florida I used to can...

With Will here, we’re getting ready for winter faster

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It's so nice, having a helpful, fun loving guy around the place. Especially when he's so handy at everything homestead! While I've been madly canning up a storm as the tomatoes, corn and other...

Q and A: Compost freezing, Tattler lids, and dirty windows

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Compost freezing We are in Colorado near the mountains. We have many bags of excess compost/steer manure from when we purchased and had trees planted this summer. If we leave the bags outside (where it...

With warm weather, we’ve been getting a lot done

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Last spring we bought a new patio door unit, planning to replace the patio windows in the south wall of our living room. The seals on the old windows were compromised and sometimes they...

Q and A: learning to make cheese, dandelion syrup, and starting seeds in peat...

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Learning to make cheese I would really like to try a cheese making class. One where you spend the whole day or weekend actually making the cheese, not just watching someone do it. I live...