Category Archives: Homestead Skills

Canned beets with wine

Posted on August 7, 2009 by robin

Lee and I are trying to eat beets more since they are nutritionally good for you. I grew a row of the Flat Of Egypt variety this spring. I didn’t think that I would get anything to harvest as this … Continue reading →

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Fermenting lettuce

Posted on August 4, 2009 by lee

We are presently overwhelmed with near-bolting lettuce, so I decided to try a blog suggestion to use lettuce for sauerkraut. I don’t know how it will turn out (lettuce lacks the crunch of cabbage), but it was good practice for … Continue reading →

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Brewing beer

Posted on July 28, 2009 by lee

My nephew has been brewing beer for almost a year, and he has progressively raised my interest level in it. (Another factor is Oregon’s large selection of good craft beers.) I finally took the plunge and bought beer making gear … Continue reading →

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Pickled kohlrabi

Posted on July 28, 2009 by robin

I had some kohlrabi growing in my garden that I needed to use. I was dying to try pickling them but had a hard time finding recipes online. Well, there was one recipe, but it was copied in so many … Continue reading →

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Dandelion wine: Part 3

Posted on July 28, 2009 by lee

I finally racked (siphoned) my dandelion wine off the lees (gunk at the bottom of the carboy) and into a clean new carboy. It has been 2 and a half months since I prepared the wine in two posts. Racking … Continue reading →

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Cherry jam and syrup

Posted on July 27, 2009 by robin

Today I went down to my mom’s house and we put the juice from all those cherries we canned to good use. We made five jars of cherry jam and eleven jars of cherry syrup for pancakes. Wow is it … Continue reading →

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Blanching Romano Purpiat beans

Posted on July 26, 2009 by robin

Yup, they really are that color of purple. When you bite into them you forget that your bean “should” be green. They have a nice juicy flavor that Lee and I really like. Besides they are green inside. Much to … Continue reading →

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Canning cherries

Posted on July 25, 2009 by robin

Friday morning my Mom, 2 sisters, 2 nieces, my Uncle, and I decided to go cherry picking for pie cherries. In just a short order we had picked a little over 130 pounds of cherries. My Uncle decided that he … Continue reading →

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Blanching turnips

Posted on July 20, 2009 by robin

Yesterday, when pulling up a turnip and looking at it’s size I decided I needed to do something about them. So today I went out and pulled all of the big ones. It seemed that when they got bigger and … Continue reading →

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Starting food storage

Posted on July 18, 2009 by robin

We are gearing up for food storage and preserving. On a trip to our local Bi-Mart we noticed they had sales running on canning jars and plastic freezer containers. So we bought 36 quart and 10 pint sized storage containers. … Continue reading →

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