Q and A: sulfur in well water and baking cakes in jars
Sulfur in well water
We just bought a house in the country. We will be moving in around Christmas. Everything checks out OK, we had the inspection today, but the water stinks like sulfur. I...
We’ve got all our tomatoes in the main garden, caged and mulched
It's a big job, getting all our tomatoes ready to grow; first we pull the WallO' Waters off them, then weed each and mulch heavily. Then each gets a steel T-post and heavy duty...
The frogs are peeping
On the very last day of April, both the woods frogs and spring peepers started singing all over our beaver ponds and in the creek. Usually the woods frogs, who sound sort of like...
Q and A: canning cheese, elephant garlic, and storing brown sugar
Canning cheese
I can milk, butter, and am going to can up yellow cheese this weekend. Can you can up cream cheese? I freeze it now, but it ends up crumbly when it defrosts. That's...
Q and A: training a heifer to milk, powdery mildew, and ordering seeds
Training a heifer to milk
We have a Jersey heifer that calved about three weeks ago. I am having a terrible time milking her. She was so gentle that I free milk her, with only...