Q and A: canning with Splenda, slurry on the garden, and priorities for new...
Canning with Splenda
I've been a canner for my whole life and now must think about sugar intake. Have you had any experience with canning with Splenda? I found a nice BBQ sauce recipe with...
“Strike while the iron is hot”
This is our "second" farm motto! (The first is "Mo' poo poo.") The company where David works is starting to cut their own bolts (square logs) that they then use to manufacture milled logs...
When it rains, it pours.
Or snows actually. Last night we were driving home from the store and it began snowing. Then it really snowed, so heavily we could hardly see the road. And the temperatures are diving from...
Q and A: Canning meat and watering pigs
Canning meat
I'm getting brave enough to want to learn to start canning. When you talk of browning meat before canning, are you fully cooking the meat? And if you pour boiling water over it...
We’re sawing up those poles Will saved from clearing the new forty
It's getting cold. Tonight it's going to be down around zero. Today, however, was beautiful -- sunny and pretty. You may remember that Will carefully saved nearly all of those small trees he bulldozed...