Q&A: Buckwheat yeast pancake recipe, Canning potatoes with onions, and Weeds

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Buckwheat yeast pancake recipe Hi Jackie, I am looking for a good yeast based buckwheat pancake recipe. My father use to make a good buckwheat pancake when I was a child about 60 years ago but...

The Orr Center Homesteading and Sustainable Living Expo was a great success

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Will and I attended the Expo on Saturday and Sunday, taking our Seed Treasures booth, seeds, and vegetables and promoting Backwoods Home and Self-Reliance magazines, of course. I gave the keynote address each day,...

Well, our last seminar was a big success

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We had a wonderful group and although it did rain one day pretty hard, we switched up our schedule and went right ahead indoors. Due to a few folks' emergencies, our intended fifteen attendees...

Q and A: Dehydrating dairy products, Food worries, and Mashing blueberries

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Dehydrating dairy products I have read that you can dehydrate cottage cheese and sour cream, but they say it only keeps for 1 week out of the frig and 6 months in the frig. I...

Layout of new garden and Canning questions

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Layout of new garden  My question concerns the layout of a new vegetable garden. There is a large, relatively flat area with full sun in which we want to start preparing wide beds for next...