Blueberries are ripe!

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I've been watching the wild blueberries since spring. Last year, after suffering that cold winter with drought and no snow cover, many of the bushes died back and those left didn't produce enough to...

Finally, after a week of cold rain, the sun comes out

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We have had a summer with no summer. A friend I talked to today said yesterday it was 33 degrees early in the morning! And we've had highs of 50 for a week. Even...

We’re bartering breeding services

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For our pigs, that is! We have two gilts that need to be bred and we have no boar. Friends of ours, Tiffany and her husband, Nate, had a boar they could spare but...

The big Texas Expo was great!

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I got to meet tons of fans of the magazine, visited with so many people that knew me and I finally got to meet and made many new friends after speaking two days on...

Q and A: canned tomato juice and single homesteader

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Canned tomato juice We always can tons of tomatoes in the summer (well it feels like it anyway). My question is I canned some tomato juice that was left over for the same amount of...