If the drought wasn’t enough, now we have grasshoppers
I've been noticing way more grasshoppers around this year than normal. And now they're getting bigger, you really notice them as every step you take, you send up a big cloud before you. I...
I’m canning nearly every day now
Our beans are in! And so are our peppers. This year I'm making batch after batch of Cowboy Candy, a candied jalapeño. Wow, are they ever good and really not all that hot. Especially...
With my canning, growing plants, and bulk bags of seed, our back porch is...
As there's scarcely enough room to walk through there anymore, Will decided to make some shelves to go on the log wall to hold some of the bags and boxes that are now on...
Q and A: Canning bacon grease and saving seeds
Canning Bacon Grease
I use bacon grease in frying eggs and sometimes potatoes and making cornbread. I have several jars of it in the refrigerator because my mother fries a lot of bacon and saves...
We’re madly trying to get our 2020 Seed Treasures catalog finished
Where do the days go, anyway? I'm thinking we have to give up sleeping or something, between normal homestead chores, canning, and getting ready for the 2020 garden. Already we're starting to get seed...