Q and A: An abundance of winter squash, canning chili beans, and preserving lemons
An abundance of winter squash and canning chili beans
What a strange summer. Several gardeners in Pueblo had zero summer squash (can you imagine zucchini NOT even sprouting?), but an abundance of winter squash. I...
QandA: Lactation in goats, Raising turkeys, and Storing seeds
Lactation in goats and raising turkeys
First question is about the lactation cycle in goats. I've heard so many people talking about their goats producing a gallon of milk a day and we are just...
Reader’s Question: Green chicken meat
Hi Jackie!
Love your column! Here's my question: Have you ever found GREEN meat in your roast chicken? If so - do you throw the whole bird out - or just pick out the...
We got that hay up!
By the grace of God, we got another 18 big round bales up before the rain. That brings our total this year up to just under sixty bales. Now if we can just get...
We woke up to snow!
Holy mackerel, we heard it might happen but we went to bed thinking "gee, it's surely not going to really snow…" But snow covered the ground early this morning and temps reached 32° F....