Q and A: cookings beans at a high altitude and Tattler lids
Cooking beans at a high altitude
We moved to Deming, New Mexico for our retirement. We love it here but are having a very hard...
Q and A: canning times, removing pulp from persimmons, and straightening canners
Canning times
I know a person that got an All American canner (I am wanting to get one). She said that the instruction book listed...
You wanted to see pictures of Red chasing Hondo?
Well here are a few. Honestly, those two go at it for fifteen minutes at a time. Red, our Bourbon Red tom seems to...
Q and A: canning tomatoes, canning root vegetables, raised beds and converting a hayfield
Canning tomatoes
I am canning tomatoes. Of course it seems time consuming. This year, for one batch I have pureed the entire tomato (minus the...
We had a busy 4th of July but no fireworks
As it's getting very dry here, we've been real busy watering gardens as well as weeding. It seems the weeds grow big even when...