Gardening along the creek...

All my little Hosta's finally leaped this year, 3 years after moving them to this new spot. Of course, now they have grown so much sinc...

Wax Bean Seed photo by dyogi If, like me, you are thinking of saving vegetable seeds for a future garden, here's some info about she...

I'm in the planning stages for making a variety of cheeses, and getting my list together of ingredients like starter cultures, aroma-pro...

One of my several comfrey plants I grow a lot of comfrey and it makes a great fertilizer. That's because comfrey is known as a dynam...

I will have an abundance of spinach growing in the garden soon, probably more than I can ever eat while it is fresh. In the meantime, I bou...

I follow Langdon Cook's blog, Fat of the Land . (His new book is Fat of the Land: Adventures of a 21st Century Forager .) Recently he ...

I saw this tip on Michael Rhulman's blog and just HAD to pass it on... Easy and cheap way to mark containers for the freezer, or even...

I chanced across a fantastic British documentary video series recently, A Farm for the Future . It is perhaps one of the most positive and t...

Photo by Leon Wilson Today marks two years of posting on this blog. In that time, it has grown from a very few followers who are mostly ...

Actually it is American Neufchâtel, which is a low-fat cream cheese. I plan to make cheesecake with my American Neufchatel, but it also ma...

I've been watching the proliferation of recently Ag-Gag Bills, and frankly I am fed up with BigAg trying to run my life, and to hide fro...

Sorry for the delay in the 2 posts below. They were scheduled for just after midnight EST on the 11 and 12, but Blogger was screwed up for a...

Real ice cream . When is the last time you had any real ice cream, made with just the natural ingredients of milk, heavy cream, egg yolks, ...

I am determined to make good feta! Actually the 2 batches I have made previously have tasted just fine, but melted into the brine after jus...

This REALLY annoys me! I bought a 4-pack of grahams at Sam's to have on hand for a couple of cheesecakes I want to make with homemade r...

I love tapioca pudding but I've never made any from scratch, or if I did it has been so many years that I've forgotten. Recently I ...

I vowed 2-3 years ago NOT to acquire more cookbooks, and in fact have given away a substantial number of them in the last 2 years. However...

In the several posts I've made on rendering fats on this blog, I have described "leaf fat" (which makes the very best lard, a...

A few miles from my house Killer tornadoes, flooding, high winds, hail as big as fists... sadly, these are all in the news this week, al...

The one really nasty part for me about making cheese is the clean-up. Not only are there a lot of pots, utensils, colanders, strainers, mold...