kitchen
Springrock Jacobs Earn Their Keep
Add to Favorites Featured in the July / August 2017 issue of sheep! Subscribe for more great stories. By Tim King — On a recent Sunday in early March, 19-year-old Lucy …
Read More
Beat the Heat with These Super Cool Foods
It may be hot outside, but it doesn’t mean you have to lose your cool! Stocking your kitchen with the right foods will keep you chilled out all summer long. In addition to eating these fresh picks, be sure to drink plenty of water and eat lightly!
Read More
In a Jam?
Ever find yourself in a jam for a homemade gift idea? Instead of waiting until the last minute and being forced to buy everyone on your list a gift card, why not start now by making some jams and jellies.
Read More
Congrats on the Harvest! You Did It!
Add to Favorites A successful gardening season means you’re probably drowning in produce right now. And you don’t want it to go right into the compost pile. So how do you …
Read More
Maple-Vanilla And Peach-Oh-My!
Add to Favorites When I invited seven friends over for a girls’ jamming and canning night, none of us had made jam with pectin before, and we had never attempted to make anything shelf stable. We knew …
Read More
Trash to Treasure: Canning Chicken Stock
Add to Favorites By Traci Wilmoth Stock is delicious and so useful in many dishes, especially soup. It can be expensive to buy at the store, and homemade stock is …
Read More
Portable Electric Burners and Other Heat Sources for Canning
Add to Favorites Whether your kitchen has all the modern conveniences or you live off the grid, for canning purposes, some heat sources work better than others. When I …
Read More
How Long Does Homemade Jam Last?
For homemade jam, using sugar and processed by canning in a hot water bath, you can expect to get about two years of shelf life when stored in a cool, dry place.
Read More
Reviving Old Crab Apple Recipes
Previous generations grew crab apple trees as an edible, not just decorative, tree. People knew how to care for apple trees and nurtured them.
Read More
The Best Reason to Practice Food Preservation Methods
Add to Favorites I had a feeling something would go wrong. I’ve practiced food preservation methods since I was 12 and never had I felt so uneasy. I needed to put …
Read More
Freezing: Food Preservation For Your Garden Greens
Add to Favorites Why do we preserve food? All those plantings often provide way more greens than can be eaten at once. To save abundant garden greens for later use, try …
Read More
Food Preservation Examples: A Guide to Food Storage
Add to Favorites I tell my friends there are two types of people: preppers and those who laugh at preppers. Why is preparing for a rainy day such a laughable …
Read More
Time For Summer Squash
When sunny summer days arrive, I think summer squash. Summer squash are low in calories (15 per half cup) and go with almost anything.
Read More
Kohlrabi: I Grow An Oddball
Add to Favorites By Nancy Pierson Farris, South Carolina Kohlrabi: the oddball among vegetables I grow in spring. The word means turnip-cabbage. Like a turnip, kohlrabi produces an edible bulb. Unlike …
Read More
The Long Keeper Tomato
Add to Favorites By Kevin Geer, California Let me start by recalling something my grandmother told me when I asked her about growing tomatoes. Grams told me, “Tomatoes are like young …
Read More