Q and A: canning chicken and peppers for chile powder
Canning chicken
I noticed in the recent issue of BHM an article about canning chicken, both raw and cooked. In the raw method, the author suggested filling the jar with chicken then adding broth to...
Q and A: canning cheese and turkey bacon and raising pigs
Canning cheese and turkey bacon
How do you can cheese and can you can turkey bacon?
Buffy Oyler
Garfield, Arkanasa
Here's a link for canning cheese instructions: http://www.backwoodshome.com/advice/ajo061220.html. Directions are also found in my book Growing and Canning...
We’ve had snow and freezing, but harvest continues
Today I finished up the last minute harvest in our garden. It was windy, wintery, and raw, but I pulled two five-gallon buckets of rutabagas and another one of carrots. That's it. I'm done....
Wow, the cold snap is finally moving off
For more than 10 days we had highs of below zero, with lows dropping down to -40° F or lower. Not complaining but that was a long stretch of cold. We were fine but...
The horse pasture gets a renovation
You'll remember that last fall when Will was here for a two week visit, he took our bulldozer and rough-cleared 2/3 of our horse pasture (which had been young poplar woods before that). During...