Homesteading isn’t all peaches and cream — sometimes it’s weeds and sour milk.
Generally homesteading is a wonderfully fulfilling life. That's until you go out first thing in the dewy morning to see six cows happily munching down the last of the Seneca Sunrise sweet corn in...
After a lengthy drought, we just got three inches of rain and it isn’t...
We woke up to thundering rain this morning. It had rained all night and now, in the afternoon it's still raining. Gloomy except for we know that, finally, our drought of all summer has...
Q and A: Amish cole slaw, insects and weather, and pickle crisp
Amish cole slaw
I'd love to try your canned Amish cole slaw recipe, but have a question: Should the liquid you pour on the cabbage be heated to boiling?
Lynda King
Bolton, Massachusetts
No, it is not necessary...
We escaped the arctic blast for at least one day
My oldest son, Bill, texted me that they were going to celebrate grandson, Mason's fifteenth birthday on last Saturday. We've been having cold and snow and were expecting the roads to be snow-covered and...
Our roof is dripping
We've had some nice, warm weather lately and the snow is quickly melting off of our house roof. Yesterday several inches of ice and snow slid off the storage barn with a huge crash....