Sep 30, 2009

Finally!

The October issue of Homesteader News is up.  Check it out at www.homesteadernews.com .  There are a lot of good articles in it and I think they're always looking for more.


From Glory Farm

Sep 28, 2009

Did Grandma Do This?

Putting up enough food for a year takes all of my waking hours, well, not quite.  But I never knew.  I  used to put up what I had time to put up, now I don't want to waste a thing.  I have frozen broccoli and dehydrated it.  Corn is canned and dried and some still on the stalks waiting to be ground into cornmeal.  Potatoes are slowly coming out of the ground and headed for the root cellar and the dehydrator.  Picked two wheel barrows full of green tomatoes to use for sauces.  Beans and peas are drying to be used for next year's seed.  I'm drying apples, making apple jelly, apple juice, apple sauce, apple pie filling and saving some for the root cellar.  Put up the plums yesterday.  Tomorrow I hope to get the tomatoes in the cellar, pick squash and pumpkins.  I may have to start some sauerkraut, but I still have some left from last year.  I never remember to use it.  God has blessed us with abundance and I want to be a good steward. 


It's a good feeling being so tired at the end of the day.  Getting into my sweats and reading a good Louis Lamour.  How did Grandma find time to quilt, knit, spin, butcher, milk, etc.  I've heard the stories and Grandma did all of this.  I have a new respect for her.  Maybe she didn't have a computer?


From Glory Farm

Sep 26, 2009

Just Ducky

Just wanted to post this picture of the ducklings that my children have living in the house.  They thought the mama duck didn't do a very good job caring for them, as we lost three, so they took the last three inside until they're big enough to look out for themselves.  (How long is that anyways.)


Sep 1, 2009

The Dehydrator's Bible

My mom bought me this book.  At first, I wasn't all that excited, but then I opened it. 



It tells you how to dehydrate everything!!  Well, not everything.  But since I discovered dehydrating last year, and everything tasted so good, I'm doing even more of it this year.  This book tells you how to put your dehydrated foods together to  make meals.  It even  has camping menus so you can bring with some pretty fancy dehydrated feasts.  Anyways, just thought I'd give the heads up if anyone wanted to do some serious dehydrating.  I might have to get me a bigger dehydrator now!

Sep 30, 2009

Finally!

The October issue of Homesteader News is up.  Check it out at www.homesteadernews.com .  There are a lot of good articles in it and I think they're always looking for more.


From Glory Farm

Sep 28, 2009

Did Grandma Do This?

Putting up enough food for a year takes all of my waking hours, well, not quite.  But I never knew.  I  used to put up what I had time to put up, now I don't want to waste a thing.  I have frozen broccoli and dehydrated it.  Corn is canned and dried and some still on the stalks waiting to be ground into cornmeal.  Potatoes are slowly coming out of the ground and headed for the root cellar and the dehydrator.  Picked two wheel barrows full of green tomatoes to use for sauces.  Beans and peas are drying to be used for next year's seed.  I'm drying apples, making apple jelly, apple juice, apple sauce, apple pie filling and saving some for the root cellar.  Put up the plums yesterday.  Tomorrow I hope to get the tomatoes in the cellar, pick squash and pumpkins.  I may have to start some sauerkraut, but I still have some left from last year.  I never remember to use it.  God has blessed us with abundance and I want to be a good steward. 


It's a good feeling being so tired at the end of the day.  Getting into my sweats and reading a good Louis Lamour.  How did Grandma find time to quilt, knit, spin, butcher, milk, etc.  I've heard the stories and Grandma did all of this.  I have a new respect for her.  Maybe she didn't have a computer?


From Glory Farm

Sep 26, 2009

Just Ducky

Just wanted to post this picture of the ducklings that my children have living in the house.  They thought the mama duck didn't do a very good job caring for them, as we lost three, so they took the last three inside until they're big enough to look out for themselves.  (How long is that anyways.)


Sep 1, 2009

The Dehydrator's Bible

My mom bought me this book.  At first, I wasn't all that excited, but then I opened it. 



It tells you how to dehydrate everything!!  Well, not everything.  But since I discovered dehydrating last year, and everything tasted so good, I'm doing even more of it this year.  This book tells you how to put your dehydrated foods together to  make meals.  It even  has camping menus so you can bring with some pretty fancy dehydrated feasts.  Anyways, just thought I'd give the heads up if anyone wanted to do some serious dehydrating.  I might have to get me a bigger dehydrator now!