Gardening along the creek...

Now is the time to schedule and/or plant fall crops, and Johnny's Selected Seeds has a great calculator you can download for free to m...

Yes, it's that time of the year already... the first cukes are coming on fast! I'm starting with a half-gallon of lactic acid ferme...

I don't usually post what others have written, but this is too important not to pass on in case you missed it elsewhere. I generally pre...

My 1-1/2 pounds of Nanking Cherries wouldn't make much in the way of preserves, so I decided to follow an blog recipe I found to make a...

GMO Seed Corn, Photo by Oculator From the photo description: "Better Living through Genetic Modification" "An empty seed ...

To continue from the "Gotta be a pony in here somewhere"...  I'm starting to make some vitamin tinctures from the weeds in my...

Photo from WaterWatch USA For some of you who have been following this blog a long time, you may remember I have a hypothyroid condition...

I had not intended to do much garden this year, and instead put my time and effort into making cheese... but as grocery prices keep incre...

Photo By Sharondippity of Davesgarden.com The elderberry bushes are in full bloom around here, so I decided to pick some of the flowers ...

Photo by Vossner of Davesgarden.com Have you ever noticed that when something shows up, over and over, it's time to pay attention? L...

I say I'm making 'Stilton' because Stilton is a "protected name" cheese and by law, can only be made in the three c...

There is a recipe in the book Beyond Nose to Tail by Fergus Henderson for what he calls Trotter Gear. It is a rich pork stock that sets u...

My interest in cooking really began with Alton Brown's Good Eats many years ago. I liked that he explained the Why's and the How...

There is some voiced concern all over the Internet that we aren't being told all the facts about radiation contamination coming from Jap...

I planted 3 Nanking Cherries 3 summers ago, mainly to divert the birds from other fruiting bushes or trees. This year there are cherries! (...

I've been reading a lot about the current E.coli outbreak in Europe. E.coli isn't new, nor are the outbreaks... only these strains a...