Q and A: turmeric in pickles and storing yams
Turmeric in pickles
I have been canning like a factory for the last two weeks, I am using your canning book like it has become a part of me it even goes with me to...
Canning keeps on going on…
…but we're also still harvesting seeds. Today Ashley and I shelled two gallons of beautiful Bear Island Chippewa corn. I just can't get over how beautiful it is and how fat those colorful kernels...
Our wild turkey hen is back
And she brought her family! This year, we've been seeing her, way down about 2½ miles from our place. She had four babies. Slowly, over the course of the summer, she and her family...
I’m just getting over the stomach flu and there’s a freeze coming!
Ma Nature waits for no one. I'm just getting through a week long bout with the stomach flu and the weather radio is predicting temperatures in the 20s on Tuesday night. EEEKKKK! So we've...
We’re working on our bridge and we also made a “haul”
While our friend Dale Rinne was here digging our pond, he also dug holes for the pilings for our new bridge over the creek. And last week, Will hauled some 8' pieces of heavy,...