I love dehydrating food.
I had never done anything like this before, but it sounded like a good thing, so I got an Excalibur food dehydrator (which I absolutely adore).
I haven’t had much from the garden this year, so I’ve gotten tomatoes, apples, and peaches from the local food co-op to learn all these things (canning, […]
Green With A Gun has a fascinating post up on Georgia, Russia and the West.
We went from a major drought to the wettest August on record in a matter of days, and it looks like there’s more rain coming this weekend. The rain knocked out some people’s power in Oklahoma City, and flattened some of […]
For some reason, I’ve been finding a lot of finance articles out there. Here’s one I thought was particularly good: Get out of credit card debt now!
Before my husband and I got married (21 years ago this week), we decided that if we ever couldn’t pay the balance on a credit card then we would […]
Living the high life is not necessarily a good thing: Five signs that you’re living beyond your means
Many people in America are living beyond their means, as personal savings rates are at their lowest levels since the Great Depression, according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Dwindling savings mean that U.S. households are taking […]
This is party week in this house: two birthdays and an anniversary!
Anyways, a few things have gotten done in the last few days …
Planted: more beans, more tomatoes, the other half of my seed potatoes
Harvested: green beans, my lone tomato, a small salad of beet and rapa greens, carrots
Managed: did some bunny bin cleaning, also […]
He wants us off oil.
Which is pretty surprising for an oil man:
The octogenarian oilman has a message for Americans and the two presidential candidates: Our dependence on imported oil is destroying the country. Pickens is serious about this–he’s spending $58 million and a chunk of his personal time to get the word out. “I’ve been […]
… other than pontificate about weeds.
Planted: Lakota blue squash, the strawberry plants, and all the rest of the sweet potato slips!
Sweet potatoes are wonderful things. If they grow in your area, grow them. They are so easy to propagate; just cut off a piece of the vine and stick it in water, where it will […]
“Oh,” a friend moaned when I mentioned I had a garden, “I could never have a garden … I just can’t deal with all the weeds!”
One of my favorite articles on managing a homestead is this one: Nature’s Pace
There are no wastes on a sustainable farm, only opportunities.
So … what do you have an abundance […]
I got a lot done today so far: planted two tomato plants, repotted a grapevine until I can plant it and an olive tree that will stay in pots (too cold in the winter for it), cleaned out a bunny bin and composted the litter, and for the finale, I made peach lemonade and peach […]
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