Our new apprentice, Krystal, arrived
We've got a summer apprentice homesteader, Krystal, who arrived yesterday from Georgia. She's anxious to learn what we can teach her for her own future homestead. I'm sure we'll have a lot of fun...
Q and A: fencing and broccoli not heading
Fencing
We're preparing to fence in our new 7 acres next spring and are debating how to anchor our wood fence posts. I know you've done a lot of fencing over the years! Do you...
Q and A: Canning butter and growing basil
Canning butter
I canned some butter over this weekend following the directions in your canning book. You say to simmer the butter to evaporate the buttermilk, left over buttermilk will make it taste bad. You...
Q and A: selling meat, stacking canned foods, canning cheese, and storing dehydrated foods
Selling meat
Just wondering how you are selling meat to the public without getting interference from the gummint?
Dick Rinehart
Walton, Kentucky
Here in Minnesota it's legal to sell a quarter, half, or whole animal headed for slaughter....
Poppin’ peppers!
Our peppers are really popping up! Today Will moved two tables into the living room windows so they can get plenty of sun until we get the other mini-greenhouse set up in a window....