Q and A: making pickles, preserving squash, and growing squash
Making pickles
Do you have a recipe for making dill cucumbers with lemon juice instead of vinegar? It just sounds healthier, if it is possible.
Nancy Hoppe
Cinebar, Washington
You could use a substitution in your dill pickle...
Q and A: Keeping stored foods cool, Canning sweet corn, Drying yellow squash, and...
Keeping stored foods cool, Canning sweet corn, Drying yellow squash
We’re finally fixing to build a large pantry in our closed-in garage and we will be insulating with styrofoam. Hubby thought that maybe venting it...
Q and A: Planting apple seeds and seed request
Planting apple seeds
During my work in the forest I came across an old homestead that had several apple trees. One has a very nice tasting apple and has so far this year survived 3...
Q and A: dwarf fruit trees and refrigerator pickles
Dwarf fruit trees
I want to plant some dwarf fruit trees and I can't find an Arkansas Nursery which sells dwarf trees that are good for the Arkansas Climate. Also could you help with a...
Summer’s in full swing
While Will is busy flat-siding the heavy support beams for the barn on our new Hud-Son sawmill, I'm busy making strawberry jam and syrup from our strawberries we planted two years ago. Last year,...