Author RSSCanning Made Easy With Personal Advice From a Home Canner
I've been home canning for several years, and I am still always on the lookout for tools and techniques
to make my canning season easier and less tedious. As I look back over all the seeds, pits, peels,
cores, toil, sweat, chopping, cutting and m...
Improve Your Vegetable Garden! Green Living Tricks to Enhance Your Green Thumb Success
When it comes to gardening, there are some additional benefits to just having your own fruits and vegetables. Not only can you be a "green" thumb, but you can be a contributor to the "green" living movement by recycling common household "garbage" items i...
You CAN Preserve Your Farm Fresh Eggs Without Refrigeration! Here's the Secret!
You've made omelettes, egg salad, scrambled eggs, quiche, even your own mayonnaise! You've sold eggs, given excess eggs to family and neighbors...and still, you have an abundance of eggs! The refrigerator shelves are filling up and there isn't room for ...
Influenza Pandemic 2009: Immunity Boosting, Prevention, and Homeopathic Remedies
Typically the flu season begins and ends with the winter season. However, as we are all aware, the
spring of 2009 has very different ideas! A rare and "baffling" flu virus is rapidly wreaking havoc
in Mexico, with over 103 confirmed deaths as of...
Want To Have the Most Successful and Productive Backyard Garden Ever? Plant These Mulching Tips!
Gardening is a most satisfying hobby and skill. And, as with most hobbies and skills, there is always something to learn and something to improve. Perhaps one of the most overlooked, yet one of the most beneficial things you can do for your backyard veg...
Home Canning: Get a Jump Start on the Canning Season--Stock (and "Stalk") Up Now!
It is never too early to start preparing for the canning season. Before you know it, various fruits and vegetables from either your garden or a farmers market, will be ready to be preserved and put in canning jars. Now is the time to assess your canning n...
Raising Backyard Chickens: An Essential Guide...The Chicks Arrive, Now What?
In order to have a successful poultry, and more specifically chicken, operation, it is essential that you have the proper housing and equipment for your birds. I guarantee, if you follow the tips I have lined out in my previous articles, you will find you...
Raising Chickens: An Essential Guide For Starting a Successful Backyard Poultry Operation Continues
Welcome back! Do you have those chickens ordered yet? Actually, before you get those bantys or Rhode Island Reds ordered, you will need to be prepared! Don't wait until the birds have arrived to figure out where you are going to put them. It's a lot of ne...
Raising Chickens: An Essential Guide For Starting a Successful Backyard Poultry Operation
Who should raise their own chickens? Why, you of course! Raising chickens is not hard--in fact, it is a lot of fun and very rewarding. Many people, urban and suburban, are re-discovering the joy of raising their own produce and meat/dairy products. Of cou...
Living Off The Grid: When The Lights Go Out--You're Not Without!
There are few circumstances more annoying than having the power go out--especially during the 2 minute warning of a superbowl game. I know. This actually happened to me once. Fortunately, I had a back up generator, and set a land speed record turning i...
Grow A Home Vegetable Garden: Hybrid vs. Non-Hybrid Seeds, Which?
Springtime is in the air and it is time to start turning thoughts to the great outdoors and gardening. Growing a home garden is both rewarding and satisfying. And, with the economy in such sorry shape, growing your own food is now becoming an economic n...
Ahoy! Danger Ahead! Global Water Shortage, Robinson Crusoe, and the Revolution
Question: What do Robinson Crusoe, Gilligan's Island and the rhyme of the ancient Mariner all have in common? Answer: They are all surrounded by water--yet they have little or none to drink! As the ancient Mariner quips, "Water, water every where, and...
March Madness and How to Make Your Own Sauerkraut!
You can smell it in the air--the hope of spring, the Final 4, homemade sauerkraut...What? Homemade sauerkraut?! Aah yes, it's true. While daffodils are blooming and basketballs are bouncing, there is yet another indication that spring is nigh: CABBAGE...
Start a Food Storage Program: 7 Practical Ideas (Often FREE) For Obtaining Food Storage Containers
Have you and your family started a home food storage program? Do you feel the need? Did you know that before families could come over on the Mayflower, the family had to be "prepared" and were not allowed to venture over to the New World unless they cou...
Food Safety and Bioterrorism: Survival of the Fittest?
How safe is the food you're eating? Do you know what went into it? According to a January 9, 2009 article by Sarah Hills of The Food Navigator, titled, "Food Terrorism Tops 2009 Safety Scare List", she quotes her source, Bill Marler as saying, "Food saf...
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