Our turkey hens have new nest boxes
Last year we had trouble with hatching turkey poults. Too many hens would try laying and sitting in the same nest box; eggs would get broken and the eggs would chill and no babies...
Q and A: canning nopales and vitamin C to keep fruit fresh
Canning nopales
Do you have any information on canning nopales? What about dehydrating?
Shirley Sandquist
Elwood, Illinois
Nopales (or prickly pear cactus pads) are best canned as pickled. A simple pickling solution made of 1 cup white vinegar...
Oh my! I have to can up a freezer full soon
I thought that Will had the meat from our two steers all sold. But he doesn't and a half of one of them has to stay in our freezer as the buyers are going...
We’re already getting ready for spring
Besides getting our seeds lined up and my garden notebook worked on, we're also figuring out how to make our five acres of gardens easier to work as we're not getting any younger. (My...
Q and A: insects eating ground cherry leaves, Stanley plums, and butchering chickens
Insects eating ground cherry leaves
What is eating my Ground Cherry leaves? I planted a few ground cherries this year after reading some of your posts about them. I had never tried them before,...