Q and A: Chicken broth and Potato bugs

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Chicken broth Can I make broth out of Chicken Skins? I would skim the fat and can the rest. Shirley Owens Milton, Florida Yes, but it won't...

Harvest time has begun

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We're so happy. Not only is our haying under full swing but I'm starting to can like mad! I've already put up two nice...

Thanksgiving, then making jerky from David’s deer

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We had a great "vacation." David had Thursday, Friday, and the weekend off from school. Of course, Thursday, being Thanksgiving, I cooked, cooked, and...

Harvest is starting, big time!

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Slowly, the earliest tomatoes ripened, then more of them, now the mid-season vines are cranking out tomatoes by the basket full. After all, we...

One of the nine baby turkeys went missing!

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Will went out to do chores this morning and counted baby turkeys. There were only eight! We've been seeing mama fox and her half-grown...