I’m hunting up my pepper seeds and my jiffy pellets

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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....

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...

Our tomatoes and peppers are getting ripe

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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...

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE

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We've been hoping for a respite from our darned catalog's mailing list problems and thought it was done; then today we found out somehow...

Reader’s Question: Root cellars, heating, and wood cookstoves

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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...