Category: urban homesteading

Every summer I wonder why I torture myself blanching, peeling and then canning hundreds of tomatoes in the form of sauce or chopped up and packed in their own j...

Granted I have a strange sense of fun.  But anything is better than making enough sauce for the entire year in just three days. Sy came across an insanely good ...

In the greater interests of keeping food costs in check, eating as local and in-season as possible, convenience and of course for better food, I spend three day...

It’s that time of year where we’re finishing up the last of the supplies put up last year and taking stock of what we want to do this growing/pickin...

Update:  I wrote this a couple of weeks ago and then got sick.  Everyone is already settling into the school year schedule but it seemed a waste to discard an a...

I’m usually the eater of last resort when it comes to the leftovers in this house.  I get them when everyone else is sick of them or there isn’t qui...