The big Bill Bean is ripe
You've been wondering when you'd get a chance to see our biggest big Bill Bean tomato? We harvested it before the chickens could get a beak on it, and it's a whopper — the...
Q and A: canning caramel and chocolate sauce, planting corn, and yields for canning...
Canning caramel and chocolate sauce
I have easy and delicious recipes for Caramel Sauce and Chocolate Sauce that I'd like to can for Christmas gifts. Both have cream, butter, and vanilla; the caramel has brown...
We’re digging potatoes today, with a new family member
It's unseasonably warm today, sunny and 75 degrees. A perfect day to get those potatoes out of the ground and down in the basement. But first we had to haul out all of the...
Q and A: canning ham and dehydrated tomatoes for spaghetti sauce
Canning ham
I recently got a deal on canned ham; can I re-can this into glass jars? If so, how? Also, have you ever made carrot kraut? How?
Sandy Rowland
Linconton, North Carolina
You bet you can re-can...
After a week of rain and cold, the sun is shining
It sure makes one feel better when the sun comes out after a long period of rain! Yesterday I went out and pulled some nice rutabagas and began washing, peeling, and getting them ready...