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Title says it all, really. Honestly, I have this problem with canned fruit of most types except for sour cherries, which I get frozen and then put up later, because I don’t trust myself around 9 pounds of cherries. I’m hot-packing, did cook the apples for roughly five minutes before filling...

So, the School of Traditional Skills is a pay-for thing for homesteading classes, but the summit is free. Signups are here. It’s hard to argue with free, the rest being the cost of your time and remembering to unsubscribe if you don’t want to get more emails later. Some of it’s beginner, some...

I’m the first to admit I’m not a knitter. Sewing is more my jam. I have a tendency to wear through my socks at the Achilles tendon, where the shoe rubs against the back of my heel. Obviously sewing is not a good fit for this; it doesn’t stretch and will likely rub. I’ve looked up how to darn...

This recipe is from Preserving Italy, by Domenica Marchetti. There are a number of lovely recipes in here, and if you’re at all a fan of Italian cuisine, I highly recommend it. I have edited the recipe slightly to improve on some wasted time, by inverting the “make the brine” and ”carve the...

I put in a question to the Colorado extension last October, to discover if I could use this recipe: Mayhaw Jelly to can up jelly made from our local hawthorn (mayhaw) berries. The answer is YES! You can do that with other non-Georgia hawthorn berries, so if you’re lucky enough to have a...

Hey friends! Since we talked a little bit about Townsends over on the “what are you watching” thread, I thought I’d post a recipe I cobbled together from one of their episodes. In the episode, the recipe calls for Pippin apples, and if you have them — we are lucky enough that we do, our one...

Hi there! New here, obviously. Nice to meet you all! I‘m not exactly a born-to-it homesteader; I came to it through a love of Laura Ingalls Wilder and the Harvest Moon video game series. About fifteen years ago I came to the astonishing (ha!) realization that I had a backyard and I could try...