We had a happy Thanksgiving and a foot of snow

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As we were under a winter blizzard warning, we had no company for Thanksgiving. But I still cooked up a storm, anyway. And finally, after years of trial and error...mostly error…found out how to...

Q and A: Porcupine meatballs and Re-canning salsa and BBQ sauce

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Porcupine meatballs Got the new cookbook Monday and think it is great. In the recipe for porcupine meatballs you mentioned canning them. Looked in your canning book and saw two recipes for making and canning...

Q and A: canning sausage and three sisters planting

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Canning sausage Can sausage be canned like ground beef? No one here likes sausage patties but do like sausage gravy and soup. Canned the same as ground beef? Hail here shredded the corn leaves and put...

Q and A: canning cheese and turkey bacon and raising pigs

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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...

Our August 2013 homestead seminar was a huge success

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We're getting rested up from our seminar held this last weekend. We had fourteen people attend plus our oldest son, Bill and friend Eric who videotaped the whole thing. (We hope to make a...