We have plenty of irons in the fire
Most people have a spring project or two going right now. We have a dozen! Eeeek! Let's see, our garden is being planted. I have just planted 50 tomato plants, in their Wall'o Waters,...
We took our pig in to butcher
And now we are waiting for the call to come pick up our pork at the processing plant. Of course, it's going to be a little longer before the hams and bacon are smoked,...
It’s November, and we’re getting ready to breed our goats for spring babies
Now that we've gotten our mule, Domino, moved down to our newly finished training ring (a process that went very well, by the way) we're re-doing our pens and cleaning out the indoor stalls...
Q and A: wide mouth jars and buckboard bacon
Wide-mouth jars
I have been using wide mouth jars almost exclusively because they are easy to fill/wash. It occurred to me today as I started a batch of strawberry star fruit jam that there may...
Q and A: lettuce, beans, peas, onions, and garlic and canning curried goat
Lettuce, beans, peas, onions, and garlic
Does leaf lettuce and stinging nettle cross pollinate? I found both red and green leaf lettuce with stickers on the back of the leaves today. One is starting to...