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Fall Planting Starts Now…Or Yesterday 27 Aug 2013 | 05:41 am
Just when tomatoes are coming in by the tons and weeds seem overwhelming, there’s one more little task to add to your list of gardening tasks – fall planting. For us, autumn planting is a nice break f...
Our Worst Canning Accident Yet 23 Aug 2013 | 12:45 am
My students at canning classes frequently express concern about botulism. I ease their fears about that rare occurrence by assuring them they should worry about burns instead. Hanging around boiling w...
How To Choose A Kitchen Appliance {Sponsored} 18 Aug 2013 | 07:05 am
We’ve made no bones about the fact that we strongly dislike our current kitchen. We’re slowly planning a complete renovation to make the kitchen more attractive, comfortable, and functional. Kitchen ...
Acmella oleracea aka Toothache Plant aka Our Party Trick {Wordless Wednesday} 14 Aug 2013 | 04:39 pm
A friend wrote recently, “Seeing you always leaves a tingly feeling in my mouth.” He’s talking about toothache plant, Acmella oleracea, our party trick flower. Innocent in appearance and vigorously gr...
Homemade Low-Cost, High-Character Cold Smoker Contraption 8 Aug 2013 | 12:09 am
Today I will reveal the second craziest homemade cold smoker ever created. It was born from a desire to cold smoke a molasses cured, home butchered ham without breaking the bank and inspired by the c...
Pea Shoot Pesto {Recipe} 2 Aug 2013 | 05:01 pm
Pesto is the simplest sauce in the world. All you need are fresh herbs, a little salt, and oil. Basil is traditional but you can use any seasonal herb. You can even use a mortar and pestle or lots of ...
Cradling Chaos 30 Jul 2013 | 05:46 pm
Let’s review the last week, shall we? Monday – Rachel worked 12 hours shepherding 86 Japanese exchangees from the airport to a hotel in two batches. Alex and Lil ran errands and maintained the home f...
Score Squash Now For Fun Autumn Scarred Squash 21 Jul 2013 | 06:46 pm
Last year I saw Jamie Oliver post an amazing Halloween display with scarred squash. I booked marked the idea in my mind and am now scoring all our volunteer squash plants. All you need is a sharp kni...
Creepy Meats – On Raising Cornish Cross Meat Chickens 18 Jul 2013 | 05:08 pm
The story below contains details about the process of raising meat chickens but no graphic images or descriptions of the slaughter. My friends Ohio Farm Girl and Lyndsey Teeter refer to Cornish Cross...
Triple Yolk Egg!!! {Wordless Wednesday} 10 Jul 2013 | 09:07 pm
One New Hampshire Red chicken named Flame laid one egg (numbered ’2′ because we’re weighing eggs with Lil) which contained three yolks! A triple yolk egg is a rarity, the only one we’ve ever seen, wor...
