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...
A visit to the apple man, Beryl Novak
Because we're starting a new homestead and planting lots of fruit trees, I was tickled to meet a self-taught fruit tree expert while shopping...
So much for spring
Although it's common every single year, we didn't want another big snow to come our way. Unfortunately, today, it's snowing hard, covering up my...
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...
I’ve had fun looking at back issues of Backwoods Home Magazine
As I have to spend a lot of time lying down to keep my "surgery" leg from swelling down to the foot, I've been...