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Canning Pineapple “a year’s supply”
Canning Pineapple is a simple enough. trim off the ends, peel and core it and cut it into cubes, jar up in to a light syrup and process for 15 min in a water bath canner. You can make it … Continue reading
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Tagged Canning Pineapple, Home canning of pineapple, Saving money canning
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Rabbit Update
Last week we were gifted by a friend that was slowing down her rabbit breeding plans, a four hole grow out set up cage and a two hole mom with full nest box attached to each end set up. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Breeding rabbits on the homestead, Rabbits, raising rabbit for meat
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5 Ways to use Garlic Scapes!
Ah, Garlic Scapes, those yummy green tops on the garlic that you are growing in your garden, or available from your favorite local garlic grower. When they reach over and start to curl into themselves.. its time for harvesting. I … Continue reading
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Tagged 5 ways to use garlic scape, Canning Minted Garlic Scapes, Creamy Garlic Scape Pesto recipe, Crunchy Oven Roasted Garlic Scapes chips, Dill Picked Garlic Scapes, Garlic Scape pesto recipe, Garlic Scapes, Oven Roasted Garlic Scapes, Sweet Minted Garlic Scapes, Using Garlic scapes in stirfry
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Strawberry Pineapple Jam Recipe
Well, I was thrilled to see that my local store had x-large fresh dole pineapples on sale for 1.50 each for Canada Sale.. now one of these typically makes me 1 and half pints each.. so I got 36 pineapples, … Continue reading
June Garden Overview -2017 Tracking Year Data
Hello Folks, I am going to do my best heading into 2017 to have a big old tracking year, I need to do this and I have the book, the paperwork and the plan.. I will make it happen.. So this is the first month of scales, daily writing of what is coming in.. O […]
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Tagged Garden, garden overview 2017, Garden tracking stats 2017, homestead garden, Seed starting
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Canning Round up for June – 2017
2017 Please note for ease of tracking, I will be rounding everything up or down into pints.. example, if I do 7 quarts of something, it will be written as 14 pints, if I do 8 80z jars it will be written as 4 pints.. you get the idea.. It will make my life so […]
Canning up some Sweet Tea Concentrate
Homemade Sweet Tea in summer is a delight but if you forget to do it in time or you think you have a jug in the fridge and company shows up and you reach for it, only to see that … Continue reading
Haskap -Slow going.. yeild for 2017
The answer on if these bushes are worth it is still out.. they are one of the first flowering and fruiting bushes in our zone 5. The first spring berry to be harvested on the farm. I had bought two … Continue reading
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Tagged Growing Haskap, Haskap berries, Haskap Bushes, Haskap growing in Zone 5, Haskap jam, Haskap used in desserts
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Lovage Harvest for 2017
Lovage is commonly known as a pot herb, it is a huge plant and those with limited space often remove this outstanding plant from their garden because of this.. I will be doing three collecting and harvests of this plant … Continue reading
Just another Day on the Farm 