Gardening along the creek...

I will be posting a series on lacto-fermentation all week, beginning here with health benefits. Lacto-fermented vegetables are intended to...

 Photo Courtesy of AYankeeCat   Note the long red saffron stigmas coming off the centers Saffron is the most expensive spice you can buy, ...

Some time back when I wrote about ghee , a reader asked me to post pictures of making it and also of rendering tallow , when I did some ag...

Chicken Fried Steak photo from jasonlam's photostream Cooking with tallow may be something not many of us do, yet it has some terrific...

Just something fun while I'm away having 2 fillings and a tooth pulled... Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy   by Henry Beard from Po...

  Photo from sabareq's photostream My folks had a trout pond and raised a hundred or so trout every summer before they went south for w...

I've been looking into making jerky, which I don't even like. Well, at least not the convenience-store pressed version containing so...

West Virginia, a neighboring state, has the same short growing season I have... only shorter! This year West Virginia State University via ...

From Mother Earth News: We’re delighted to announce that this September we’ll host the first-ever MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR, a hands-on, susta...

July 4th, Independence Day, the day we celebrate our adoption of the Declaration of Independence, seems a good time to post this. Without ...

  Photo from seantoyer's photostream Scotts is the owner of Miracle-Gro , and the SOLE licensed US distributor of Monsanto's Round...

 Photo from normanack's photostream This recipe (from Nourishment Homegrown ) will supply the proper nutrient mix for flowers to veggie...

This is the new "Wear your Seatbelt" ad the UK is running... started not be someone paid to do it, but because the 'cause...

I created a long-term storage room for dried foods by enclosing part of the back porch. Unfortunately, we soon needed the space so I moved j...

Photo from mp eds' photostream Neck and neck with brewing beer at home is the resurgence of making cider. Whether sweet, hard, blended...

Homemade apple cider vinegar is easy to make. There are 2 basic methods, and if you happen to be a home-brewer, you may elect to start by m...

Photo from AndyRob's photostream Raw, unfiltered organic apple cider vinegar (not the sterile, distilled, nutrition-less apple cider vi...

Photo from Benimoto's photostream It's too late to do any prevention for this year's Japanese Beetles, but here's a suggest...

 Photo from Jason Doucette's photostream I keep potatoes all winter and into spring in my root cellar, buried in straw. The standard ti...