We hope you had a very merry Christmas

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We did, here at our homestead. My sister and nephew came from the Duluth area to share Christmas dinner with us. As usual, I cooked much more than we could eat, but that only...

Q and A: Stringless pole beans and pressure cookers not made for canning

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Stringless pole beans Every time I have grown pole green beans they have a lot of strings in the pod. I sure would like to have suggestions on a kind that is stringless. Gail Erman Palisade, Colorado There...

Will and I took a trip to the back of the Big Pines forty...

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It was nice yesterday so Will took me out to see a spot he'd discovered while making ATV trails through the dead, blown-down fir on our new Big Pines forty. It was a gentle...

We knew it was coming

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For a couple of days, the weather forecasts were for a very heavy snow and sub-zero temperatures, along with high wind. (Hey, we heard in Hawaii, they got 100 mph winds and a foot...

Q and A: corn relish and dry milk for emergency use

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Corn relish I just made my first batch ever of corn relish, but ran short on pickling brine toward the end. I went ahead and processed it, but wondered later if the last few jars...