The small garden i planted for Spring is on its last leg. The Texas summer set in unforgivingly this year and in about one more week, i will declare my vegetable garden closed.
My efforts this time around were merely practice for an envisioned Patch of Bounty to be set down in the Fall. My research [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Water Bath?
Posted in Canning, Garden, Home-grown, Vegetables on June 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Marmalades, jellies, and jams . . . oh, my!
Posted in Jam-making, tagged high fructose corn syrup, Jam-making on June 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the spirit of fresh food, of consuming what my body welcomes and is enriched by, I’ve embarked on a quest to eliminate high fructose corn syrup from my diet.
A sweetener made from corn as opposed to sugar cane, high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is in almost everything we are offered in a package. I [...]
The Chickens
Posted in Chickens, Silkies, tagged Chickens, eggs, Silkies on June 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have decided to keep chickens. There are more chickens in the world than any other bird, so my goal in this certainly falls on the self-sufficiency side of my fence as opposed to the preservation side. It is an exciting idea to me, that of livestock and their precipitant fresh food. From the hen’s [...]
