We all had fun working off our Thanksgiving dinner

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We had a full house for Thanksgiving. Bill and his family, David and girlfriend Ashley, and our other son, Javid, all came to help us eat turkey and tons of other goodies. What a...

Q and A: canning whey and holes in apple tree

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Canning whey My husband makes cheese from goats milk and the whey is great in the garden. My question I like cooking with the whey, can I can a batch of it up to have...

Spring is sort of coming and going

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One day it's 65 degrees, and the next it's snowing! But that's springtime in northern Minnesota. On the warm days, Will's been removing the black dirt next to the house and under the new...

Layout of new garden and Canning questions

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Layout of new garden  My question concerns the layout of a new vegetable garden. There is a large, relatively flat area with full sun in which we want to start preparing wide beds for next...

So much food!

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We're simply stunned seeing how much food we have produced this year! I've been canning like mad as well as extracting seed for our little seed business. Yesterday I did up celery. I was...