Freezing Stock My wife made a nice big pot of chicken soup for dinner, there is nothing quite like a bowl of homemade soup after a cold damp day at work. The soup gave us a few meals and we still had a ton of broth left. I decided to save it for stock in […]
Pay Dirt: How To Make $10,000 a Year From Your Backyard Garden…A Review and a Giveaway.
Pay Dirt: How To Make 10,000 a Year From Your Backyard Garden is a good book. It was a bit of a struggle for me to get through though. It was much more of a business book than I was expecting. That being said Pay Dirt does have some information on vegetables and herbs that […]
Homemade Sauerkraut…the end game!
So now that my sauerkraut has been fermenting for about 3 weeks, and my wife has noticed a certain “fragrance” coming off of it, it is time for Sauerkraut…the end game! I’ve been pretty diligent with my ‘kraut, I skimmed the bloom off of it every couple of days and carefully re-packed it. I sampled […]
Homemade Sauerkraut…Connecting with my heritage.
Homemade Sauerkraut As long as I can remember sauerkraut and I have been pals. Sure, I might have called him “sourcrap” as a little guy but he didn’t seem to mind. Whether on a hot dog, brats, with pork chops, or my sister-in-law’s kapusta I love it! I guess with a Grandfather named Philip Gustav […]
How radishes helped me get my groove back…
With a blog named “How radishes helped me get my groove back…” you’re probably wondering just what the heck I’m talking about. It has been a bit of a rough patch around “ye olde neo-homestead” lately. After some issues at work, 4 weeks of forced 12 hour days, a wood pile that has taken on […]
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