Q and A: senior homesteading, leftover pickle brine, and canning cranberry sauce
Senior homesteading
I'm 55, and my husband is 62. It's just the two of us on five acres with garden beds, dogs, chickens, and the hope of more on our little homestead (a couple of...
Q and A: canning chicken and canning broth with fish
Canning chicken
We have plenty of young chicks beginning to lay and it is time to retire some of our older hens. I know they must be cooked for quite a while so they become...
Q and A: Drying towels and Canning ham hocks
Drying towels
I read in the last issue (#130, July-Aug 2011) all about washing your clothes with a wringer machine and then hanging them out to dry in the fresh air. Great article but I...
Q and A: Painted Mountain corn and canning grape juice
Painted Mountain corn
We can grow Painted Mountain corn in our short growing season here, too. It's one of the only breeds of corn I can dependably grow here every summer. The animals like it...
Our seed saving continues
We saved a huge, yellow pickling cucumber for seed before our garden froze out a couple of weeks ago. And yesterday I cut it in half and carefully scooped out the seeds. There were...