Q and A: dehydrated oatmeal, canning sweet chili sauce, canning spaghetti sauce, and Sweet...
Dehydrated oatmeal
I recently saw an ad for dehydrated oatmeal. Is oatmeal that I purchase from the grocery requiring a dehydration process to long-term store them? I had vacuum sealed some but left others in...
Q and A: baking bread and controlling bamboo
Baking bread
A reader recently asked you a question about the bread she bakes. She said that she gets a large pocket under the top crust, and that when she cuts the bread, the crust...
Got compost?
While most homesteaders have a compost pile, we have several. And some are pretty BIG! All winter we feed our horses and cattle big round bales of hay. For years we scattered the bales...
I’m spending these rainy, cloudy days inside, canning, canning, canning
I got Sherri's celery all canned up and can just taste cream of celery soup, celery in poultry dressing, celery in stews. Yum!
Yesterday was a tomato day as I had four crates and a...
We had eleven baby pigs!
After our first gilt, Lucy, had only four live-birth piggies so we were very happy when our second gilt, Blondie, had eleven! Actually, she had fourteen, but three were still-born. Of course, we felt...