We’re looking for one or more apprentices this spring

20
As our seed business is growing and we are getting older, we'd like to open our homestead to an additional apprentice or two. Our wonder-gal, Alisha, now has a boyfriend who has a farm...

Q and A: dwarf fruit trees and refrigerator pickles

1
Dwarf fruit trees I want to plant some dwarf fruit trees and I can't find an Arkansas Nursery which sells dwarf trees that are good for the Arkansas Climate. Also could you help with a...

QandA: Planting potatoes, Gnat invasion, and New to pressure canning

1
Planting potatoes I was told by an elderly neighbor that I can not plant my tomatoes in the same place that I had potatoes last year. The potatoes did fine, no blight or problems last...

Well, it froze!

27
We'd been expecting a freeze and preparing mightily for it, but when we woke up to white on the grass, it was still sort of a shock. We did all we could, covering the...

Q and A: baking bread and controlling bamboo

0
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...