Eating up all the garden mistakes
This last few days have been sort of a blur of frenzied picking, hauling, digging, hauling and stacking garden produce in the new greenhouse, away from the freezing cold that has suddenly descended on...
I’m hunting up my pepper seeds and my jiffy pellets
It's mid-February (does THAT seem possible?) and pretty soon I'll be starting my peppers and petunias. They take a long time to get big. After the peppers are about 4 inches tall, I put...
There’s another homesteader in our family!
My daughter-in-law, Kelly (Bill's wife) had a tiny, very healthy baby boy. Right in the middle of a good old Minnesota blizzard! Bill kept me posted by cell phone from the...
Reader’s Question: Root cellars, heating, and wood cookstoves
Dear Jackie
You were kind enough to answer a quetion I asked a few years back
regarding buying land in BC - we have since realized that we
definitely can't afford to buy land in BC or...
Oh those green beans!!
I suppose one always has those "favorite" garden vegetables to can. One at the top my list is green beans. They are so fun to plant (large seeds), grow quickly, look nice in...