I am happy to bring you this guest post from author Kate Downham from The Nourishing Hearth Fire. Kate has a new book all about Backyard Dairy Goats that will help you with every aspect of raising goats naturally. From feeding and care to recipes and information on using all of that goat milk goodness….
Who else is bringing in squash by the laundry basket full? Yesterday morning I canned another seven quarts of chopped squash in the pressure canner and followed it up with seven quarts of squash pickles. If you’d asked me last year if we’d have a huge harvest of squash again I would have said no….
The canner has been running nearly every single day; often twice per day. The tomatoes are getting tall, the cucumber salads daily, and the pickles are fermenting by the gallon. Oh, and we have a potential watermelon farmer on our hands who also happens to be smitten by this baby sister of his. See you…
Boys barefoot, hanging laundry on the line. Outside with a baby on my hip ‘cuz the weather is so fine. Sun hats on, making pies out of mud. Canning squash every day just because we should. Pigs are getting fat on all those eggs and Mabel’s milk. Making jam from the finest peaches you ever…
