Denver Self Reliance Expo
The Denver Self-Reliance Expo is this Friday and Saturday. I'll be speaking about gardening and canning. Dave and Ilene Duffy, Don Childers and his wife, and Jeff Yago will also be there. Stop by...
Q and A: using a fermenting crock for meat and peeling Hopi Pale Gray...
Using fermenting crock for meat
My husband would like to cure some meat in my German fermenting crock. Will my crock be safe to use again for cabbage? It is glazed on the inside.
Jean Ann...
Our tomatoes and peppers are getting ripe
With those ripening crops, I've been busy taking out seed to save for our seed business. I always take seed from the earliest and some of the best ones. I also give them a...
Despite our latest snowstorm, my first peppers are up
Yep, ANOTHER snowstorm! The weather radio, which we live by, is calling for a major winter storm with up to 14 inches of blowing, heavy, wet snow falling today, tonight, and tomorrow. Sigh. Just...
Harvest continues and we attack new projects
We've dug our second row of five rows of potatoes, yielding 50 pounds of big fat russet potatoes. Watching those nice clean potatoes roll away from the shovel was just like Christmas morning for...