Q and A: chickens pecking, removing air from jars, Hopi Pale Grey seeds, and...
Chickens pecking
I am having a problem with one of my Buff Orpingtons plucking all of the other birds in the flocks feathers. Do you have any helpful ideas on how to get her to...
Q and A: coating cheese with wax, open-pollinated plants, canning cheese, and prepper shows
Coating cheese with wax
When you make cheese, do you coat it with wax for aging? I've done it both ways and am usually not real successful with the wax. No matter how many layers...
Q and A: cover cropping and making soap
Cover cropping
Most of my vegetables are growing in 4x10 foot raised beds. I have been reading about the benefits of cover cropping after harvest and over winter and would like to know if this...
Winter “catch-up” canning
Although we use winter as our resting season, a lot still gets done. This is the time I do my catch-up canning. As we usually have butchered chickens, turkeys, pigs, and beef, I have...
We had a work day at Bill and Kelly’s house
My son Bill and his wife Kelly had talked for a few years about building a flower bed along the front of their house. And in the last two years, the talk had gotten...