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Back in the fall i cooked and strained all the surplus apples I didn't have time to properly can. I have three lovely quarts of what amounts to pectin in my freezer. I probably should do something with it soon. The stuff has no strong flavor of its own so it can be a nice base for all kinds of...

My Mom used to talk about her mother butchering chickens (1920s-30s) where she grew up in Florida, I know some of our neighbors in rural MI in the late 50's were mostly off-grid, and when, in the 70's, my brother brought to our suburban NJ home, a copy of the Whole Earth catalog (and a very...

Hey Steve, I hope/wish so! You asked: I've not quite moved into the pressure canning world yet. I was following this (perhaps out of date) advice and waiting until I had reason to go for the larger pressure cooker: https://nchfp.uga.edu/publications/nchfp/factsheets/pressurecookers.html From...

Thank you all for the warm welcome! Here is my "garden" (AKA the mess of pots and stuff) early last spring. Even the farms around my area were having problems with end blossom rot on their 'maters. I did too, but attacked with liquid seaweed and got a second late crop that was wonderful (need...

Hey all. Yup, I'm new. Right at the moment I've spent the last year discovering the joys of container gardening after moving to an apartment. I was amazed at how well I made it a replacement for my old backyard garden and how much I could actually produce in a mad combination of pots in a small...