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Can-o-Rama 2013 20 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
This past weekend was pretty much dedicated to canning. Homebrew Husband and I did this last year (see: Can-o-Rama 2012). Dedicating a solid weekend to putting up staple foods like pickles and tomatoe...
Plum Jamtini Cocktail – Pass The Ice, Pass The Shaker! 13 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
My friend Theresa is the Co-Executive Producer of Growing A Greener World, a fantastic TV show about all things gardening. She’s also a wicked good urban homesteader, master canner, great writer (chec...
Fresh Blackberry Sorbet 6 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
So, my last post was about making ice cream and then I got busy and haven’t posted in a week and now I’m back with a post about sorbet. This is not what I’d call a blogging win, because clearly I am o...
Turn Your Homemade Jam Into Easy Homemade Ice Cream 25 Jul 2013 | 05:00 pm
Perhaps, like me, you are rolling into preserving season 2013 with some, shall we say, overstock in certain areas. In 2012 around this time I still had apricot preserves hanging on from 2011. Then I h...
How Not To Die From Botulism: What Home Canners Need To Know About The World’s Most Deadly Toxin 22 Jul 2013 | 05:00 pm
You may have seen this article. A Seattle man recently contracted botulism from his improperly canned elk meat and is lucky to be alive. His description of how he canned the elk is like a checklist fo...
Whole Life Integration: Tips To Simplify Nearly Everything In Your Productive Home 16 Jul 2013 | 08:43 pm
A reader emailed me this past weekend and in a few sentences got right to the heart of why getting started with productive home- and garden-keeping can be so dang challenging. Hi Erica, I’ve been wo...
Three Simple Steps To Bring Beneficial Insects To Your Garden 11 Jul 2013 | 05:00 pm
You want beneficial insects. All the cool kids have them. Beneficials can protect your crops from “bad bugs”, pollinate your fruit, and have intriguing bug sex on your flowers (and some times, on your...
Saying Goodbye to Bleary Eyed Exhaustion? 9 Jul 2013 | 05:00 pm
My son is almost three years old. A week ago he slept for 4.75 hours straight, from 8 pm until nearly 1 am. That was the lifetime record for maximum time slept in his own bed. He does not nap. He’s n...
The Garden in Pictures: Late June 25 Jun 2013 | 03:13 am
I’ve been out in my garden a ton lately, getting the fall crops going, transplanting the last of the summer crops, and in general attempting to tidy up from a year of garden neglect. Here’s where the...
The Agony and the Ecstasy of Gardening with Children 14 Jun 2013 | 05:34 pm
One My greenhouse had gotten away from me. Weeds were threadening to overtake the tomates. Slugs had overtaken the cucumbers and basil, both of which needed a replant. And so I embarked on a clean-up ...
