What’s in Your Refrigerator?
Kathy Harrison
July 13, 2015
If you hope to waste less food, learning how to store it is crucial.
Food Preservation
Always wanted to try ___? Start smart with a kit.
Kathy Harrison
July 6, 2015
If you are like me and like to know how to “do it yourself,” start today. Think of a skill you want to take ownership of and buy a kit.
Very Cool Customers … and Their Stories
Sarah Nussbaum
June 26, 2015
Organic gardener, author, blog contributor, and mother of five, Karen Geiser, is no stranger to country living. She shares her expert advice with customers just as if they have pulled up a chair on her front porch
Canning Recipe: Raspberry Lemonade Concentrate
Kathy Harrison
June 15, 2015
Way in the bottom in the chest freezer, forgotten for months, I found several large vacuum-sealed bags of raspberries. Now they cry for something special to use them up and I have the perfect idea.
Growing Great Asparagus
Kathy Harrison
April 29, 2015
A well-planned, well-maintained asparagus bed will produce a steady crop of delicious spears every spring for decades!
Eat Local All Year: Plan Now for Preserving Season
Kathy Harrison
April 6, 2015
NOW is the time to plan your garden, join your CSA or make contact with the farmer who will provide you with raw ingredients for the dilly beans and tomato sauce that will grace your January table.
It’s That Time Again, Part 1: Sap’s Running
Dave Ross
March 27, 2015
I spend a lot of time gathering and boiling from the sixty-three trees that we have tapped. My son helps me, and it keeps us hopping in the evenings.
Riding Out the Storm
Kathy Harrison
February 6, 2015
There is a lesson to be learned from the hit-or-miss pattern of snow and wind, and that’s that the forecast models are not precise. Weather people do a good job, but you really never know. Always, just in case, we take storm preparedness seriously. I find that is far better to have things ready that I don’t need than it is to need something major that I don’t have.
Living Big in a Small Space, Part 1: How We Arrived
Rene
January 30, 2015
Shipping containers are a wonderful, quick, long-lasting, instant building. If uninsulated, they are, however, quite cold inside, especially when it dips down below freezing at night. When that happens, breath condenses and freezes on the inside and then when the sun comes up in the morning it melts and drips down on everything…
4 Ways You Can Learn From Great Depression Wisdom
Sarah Nussbaum
January 23, 2015
My 85-year-old grandmother was a young girl during the Great Depression. I recently popped in to “pick her brain” about ways I can apply all that hard-earned wit and wisdom to my own life, in 2015. Here’s what I learned.
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