Happy National Dairy Month! Today we’re celebrating the joys of making homemade dairy. When you make your own butter, cheese or yogurt, you know it’s fresh and you know what’s exactly in it. Plus, it’s just plain fun.
Want to try making these foods yourself? Check out our top dairy posts below to get started. Continue reading
A modern and convenient way of preserving food is using the freezer. Over the harvest season we fill our family freezers with an abundance of veggies, fruits and meats for the winter in addition to what is dehydrated, fermented, on the canning shelf and in the root cellar. Although freezing is a very handy method, it does require having a freezer(s) and a reliable source of electricity. I’m always a tad nervous about power outages when our freezers are full, but we do have a generator for short term back up. Continue reading
Continuing in our food storage series, we are going to look at some of the easiest options for keeping food for the winter months. The “easy” part is that there is zero processing necessary for the produce – it is just a matter of creating the perfect storage environments. Continue reading
Editor’s Note: Does your wood-burning stove need a little care? Today one of Lehman’s own, Amanda from the stove team, is sharing with us tips to help keep your wood stove in good working order. Continue reading
There’s an old saying; you can take the man out of the country, but you can’t take the country out of the man. Roger Myers, with over a dozen years of service at Lehman’s, has a background in farming and country living. And he is full of country skills!
“I raise goats and chickens and a little bit of corn,” he said. Working at Lehman’s brought him in contact with lots of customers, including those interested in making maple syrup. “I listened to customers and how much satisfaction tapping trees for sample maple syrup gave them and I thought I would try it myself.” Continue reading
A valuable food preservation method that has been used for generations is dehydration. By removing the moisture from veggies, herbs and meats, it preserves foods for winter consumption. Because minimal heat is used in the process, only a small amount of nutrients are lost (some sources claim about 5%) using this method. Continue reading
Welcome to the first post in Lehman’s food preservation series!
The year 2020 brought a bumper crop of new gardeners to the scene, and in 2021, we’re watching for the food preservation trend to gain speed. Both of these skills are tasks many of our great-grandmas were very familiar with, and in reality, we are simply returning to the “old ways” but with the advantage of modern tools and information to get the job done. Lehman’s is committed to helping your revive these valuable skills in your home so that your family is well fed and prepared for whatever may come.
Today’s topic is fermenting. So, pull up a chair and get ready to learn about this age-old food preservation method. Continue reading
We had just trimmed our tree to help it fit into our tiny home, and what we were left with seemed too good to just toss back outside: branches and sprigs of fresh, soft pine with a fragrance incredibly befitting of the season.
A weed is just a plant growing somewhere you don’t want it to. Have you ever heard that? I’ve never been much of a forager….or even much for identifying more than a handful of “weeds” I’d see growing in the yard before I yanked them out and tossed them. Continue reading
Editor’s Note: It’s our pleasure to introduce Lindsay Lehman Peters, daughter of CEO Galen Lehman. Lindsay recently made cheese for the first time and is now sharing with us the tips and tricks she learned along the way. Continue reading
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