Monthly Archives: August 2013

After the last couple of days of canning like a mad-woman and then this morning’s mad dash to school and the grocery store so I could hurry home to stack firewood before it got too hot, I’m whooped. I still … Continue reading →

I am officially in the depths of canning. I have even run out of smaller jars. I haven’t run out of jars in ages. I’m starting to run out of freezer space too. I really need to re-organize that so … Continue reading →

I get to try my new All-American pressure canner and my new hot plate today. My husband is sweet, and sick of hearing me complain about our stove, so he bought me a sweet hot plate for canning. I’m off … Continue reading →

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/08/21/213905983/young-farmers-break-the-bank-before-they-get-to-the-field More interesting to me than the article are the comments. One thing I love about NPR commenters is that they are usually well-reasoned comments even if I disagree with the comment. This article brings up several different issues. Subsidies, … Continue reading →

I canned peaches yesterday. My flat top stove stinks for canning. I didn’t have a choice despite knowing it wouldn’t be good. My hot plate that I picked up just won’t get the water to boil. Apparently it has a … Continue reading →

I just had an idea for preserving my basil harvest. Since I have loads of basil this year and I still have basil vinegar I’m thinking I’ll have to try basil salt. I don’t see why it wouldn’t work. There … Continue reading →

I can feel the air changing. It feels much more like Fall all of a sudden. Mornings are cooler and it gets dark sooner. Now instead of still being hot in the mornings I throw on a sweater. As much … Continue reading →

The glut of harvest will truly be on us soon. My freezer is quickly filling with the zucchini and we are sick of zucchini. We’ve tried cooking it several ways and we are just sick of it. Good thing the … Continue reading →

Dang things are after my tomatoes! And my tomatoes are so big that I had to reinforce my cages. My make-shift cages out of fencing is not working. Even my heavy-duty tomato cages are having a rough go of it … Continue reading →

I’m starting to see a few light red tomatoes. Our yellow cherry tomatoes have been providing us with lots of little tomatoes to go on our salads. We’ve had lots of those salads. We are usually getting two heads of … Continue reading →