{"id":4623,"date":"2015-03-04T13:46:36","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T18:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=4623"},"modified":"2015-03-04T13:46:36","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T18:46:36","slug":"q-and-a-rendering-pig-fat-canning-mulberries-and-source-for-weed-free-hay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2015\/03\/04\/q-and-a-rendering-pig-fat-canning-mulberries-and-source-for-weed-free-hay\/","title":{"rendered":"Q and A: rendering pig fat, canning mulberries, and source for weed-free hay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rendering pig fat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Could you give me a rough idea of how many pounds of pig fat I will need to render down in order to end up with a dozen pint jars of lard? I check your blog each morning to see what&#8217;s going on in your part of the country; and to see what advice to others I may be able to use.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Vala Johnson<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Harlem, Montana<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re going to need roughly 14 pounds of fat to render down to a dozen pints of lard. I&#8217;m glad to hear you visit the blog often and I hope you&#8217;ve gleaned a lot of information from others. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n<p><strong>Canning mulberries<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>This coming year I am wanting to can mulberries for making pies at a later date but I have not been able to find any info on doing this, if it can be canned, what pressure and for how long?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>William Fisher<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Grinnell, Iowa<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t need to pressure can any berries, including mulberries since they are acidic enough to process in a water bath canner. You can just water bath them under the directions used for blackberries and raspberries, which is 10 minutes for pints or 15 minutes for quarts. I&#8217;d suggest using a medium syrup, poured over the raw berries in the jar, near boiling. Be sure to count your water bath time from the time the kettle comes back to a full boil after putting your filled jars in. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source for weed-free hay<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Do you have any advice about finding a local source for weed-free hay?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Jonathan F.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Somerville, Tennessee<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t know any local farmers, why not put an ad in your nearest Craigslist like &#8220;wanted to buy, weed-free, chemical-free hay for my garden.&#8221; Or put up some cards at feed mills or livestock yards. I&#8217;m sure you can find some pretty easily that way.<\/p>\n<p>If you are using it for mulch in your garden, also be sure it is immature hay with no hay seeds present. I once &#8220;planted&#8221; a great crop of timothy in my garden by using hay for mulch that had already gone to seed. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rendering pig fat Could you give me a rough idea of how many pounds of pig fat I will need to render down in order to end up with a dozen pint jars of lard? I check your blog each morning to see what&#8217;s going on in your part of the country; and to see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,11,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}