Homesteading isn’t all peaches and cream — sometimes it’s weeds and sour milk.
Generally homesteading is a wonderfully fulfilling life. That's until you go out first thing in the dewy morning to see six cows happily munching down the last of the Seneca Sunrise sweet corn in...
Oh oh, a freeze warning
Due to the tropical storm moving northward, it sucked a cold high down from Canada unexpectedly, after we had corn, beans, squash, and melons up in the gardens. Notice, I said "gardens" as in...
Q and A: missing canner weight and removing stumps
Missing canner weight
I recently found that in a move the 10# weight for my canner was lost. Since I had a canner dial I thought I would just keep pressure at 11 to 12#...
Q and A: growing wheat, canning pickled fish, the right pressure canner, and summer...
Growing wheat
My husband grew winter wheat this past winter. Usually he plows it under when it's time to plant our garden, but this year I wanted to try to harvest some of the wheat...