Q and A: pressure canner or cooker and thick preserves
Pressure canner or cooker
We bought an electric pressure cooker/canner (Power) with the understanding we could use it for canning vegetables. Now online we...
We harvested our first cherry!
Okay, so there are only six cherries on the Meteor cherry tree! But they're ripening and it's our first harvest from this young tree,...
Q and A: Sun chokes, canning pumpkin, and canning with lemon juice
Sun Chokes
Jackie you mentioned Sun Chokes. Do you have any recipes to share? I have not been able to find many on the internet.
Rhona...
While we keep getting ready for winter, my satellite service is disrupted
We are doing the normal getting ready for winter stuff; splitting firewood, canning, weatherizing the buildings and everything's going nicely. Everything except for three...
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....