Ah! Evening and the work’s all done… (well kind of…)

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Even though our killing frost happened a couple of weeks ago, I'm still busy canning.  Some days, it's a bit too busy.  For instance, two days ago I canned up spaghetti sauce, chili with...

Q and A: Soap residue, age of eggs, and True Gold corn seeds

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Soap residue in laundry and age of eggs I have been making my own soap, cleaner, etc. but, one very big problem I have and I hope you can help me. I buy lots of...

Q and A: planting early trees and saving tomato seeds

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Planting early trees I was excited to get the e-mail that my new Apple Trees will be shipping this week until I realized that there is no way all of our snow will be gone...

I’ve been canning…and shooting photos for the new book

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While all the major writing has been done on the new Backwoods Home book on growing and canning your own food, I still had two photo shoots to do, showing the steps of both...

Another test post

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When the newly-elected Republicans take over in a few days, their first order of business will be to read the United States Constitution on the floor of the house. That’s never been done before,...