Q and A: Preserving juice, growing tomatoes, and preserving by confiting

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Preserving juice What would be the best way to preserve juice in wine/sparkling cider bottles? I've been a winemaker for several years, and would like to be able to make non-alcoholic juices to share with...

It’s rainy, it’s cold, but it isn’t snowing

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Our weather's getting progressively nastier so I'm finding plenty to do inside, despite all we have to do outside. Yesterday was relatively decent but windy so Will (with his bad cold) and I split...

What a summer! I have to have my gallbladder out and Will went to...

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We've had more than 12 inches of rain in the last two weeks. Hey, it's homesteading, right? But it didn't help that I found out that I need gallbladder surgery, then after two attacks...

Busy, busy, busy

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Now that we're feeling better, I've been zooming around playing catch-up. I've got 132 tomato seeds started (I only have another 132 to go! After all, we're trialing more than 50 new varieties this...

It’s springtime crazy around here!

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After waiting so long for nice weather, we're making very good use of it! We disbudded all five of our goat kids. That's one of our least favorite homestead jobs but we feel it's...