Q and A: Spaghetti squash, trimming tomato vines, and wrong canning time
Spaghetti squash and trimming tomato vines
The spaghetti squash is beginning to turn yellow. When it is almost ready, can I pick it early and let it ripen in the house? Also, some varieties of...
We’re making use of today’s warmer weather
While Will's watering the cows and cutting more lumber on the sawmill for David and Ashley's cabin, I'm busy putting screens and plastic tubes around the last of our fruit trees. Without protection, the...
While I’m busy canning, Will and David get the storage barn roof covered
I'm still busily making different tomato products from the last 30 gallons of ripening green tomatoes that were sitting in my unused (yet!) new laundry room, trying to rot after they ripened, then sitting...
Q and A: Acorns and silver tarps as mulch
Acorns
I enjoyed your blog on acorns. Just a tip: that brown yucky water aka tannin can be used to tan leather, to dye whites beige, as an astringent, can be frozen into ice cubes...
Q and A: drying corn, canning salmon roe, honey, and plantar wart
Drying corn
We had some food grade corn given to us and are wanting to store for use later as corn meal. We have gotten a few rain showers recently and are wondering if we...