Tag Archives: canning

Tips to Putting up the Garden Harvest…

June 9, 2010 5 Comments

If you’re new to homesteading or even a seasoned veteran – one topic that often has many many tips to it is how to preserve your harvest once the garden starts putting out food! Below are a few options: Canning - This is one of the most widely used forms of preserving and putting up [...] Read more
Category: Mini-Farms, Hobby Farms and Farmettes
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Winter Homestead ‘To Do’ ideas

January 5, 2009 10 Comments

Winter can seem like ‘down time’ on the homestead, but it certainly is not true in all homesteads. If you have livestock of any form, you know they need just as much care, if not more, in the winter. If you have wood heat, well then you are hauling and chopping and cleaning ashes. But [...] Read more
Category: Winterizing
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