Q and A: Painted Mountain corn and canning grape juice
Painted Mountain corn
We can grow Painted Mountain corn in our short growing season here, too. It's one of the only breeds of corn I...
Finally! Rain! But a tornado missed us by several miles…
We finally got two nice rains. One was only about a tenth of an inch but the next was nearly an inch, and with...
Q and A: canning chicken in half-pints, rubber gaskets on canners, fat for soap,...
Canning chicken in half-pints
In your segment on canning chicken in Self Reliance you mention that you have canned half pint jars of chicken. I...
Mother’s Day has come and gone
Now, we're back to work. But yesterday was an awesome day. My sons, Bill and David, and their families plus my sister, Sue, joined...
The canning has just begun
We've been so busy canning this past week! Alisha and I have canned tons of blueberries, blueberry jam, chokecherry jelly, bronco cherry jelly, and...





