Over the last three gardening seasons I've learned how to harvest seeds from my existing plants (herbs, flowers and vegetables) so I would have organic (non-GMO) seeds for the following years. But I noticed

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New meat grinder and sausage stuffer for making homemade snack sticks

Using my homemade Teriyaki marinade sauce to make the BEST jerky.

After a much needed break from writing, I've returned to the cannabis world.

Oh how my garden grows! Spring is here & I'm ready for the garden.

What on earth have I been up to since July 2020?

We love corned beef in this household. We could eat it every week here, but reserve it for a special treat every so often. Three months ago, I showed you how I canned pounds upon pounds of store bought

Weeks ago my husband thought I was crazy, no, he thought I was C-R-A-Z-Y for picking dandelions that had gone to seed. But I showed him! I have been on a mission for the last two years of my gardening

Whether you're a beginner gardener, master gardener or just have decades of experience with gardening, there has been at least one time you have landed on the website Home Guides SF Gate looking for gardening

Some of you may remember last week I posted about taking some online classes through Michigan State University Extension for safe food preservation. My second class is Thursday and covers freezing and

Back in May, I had gotten this little wooden herb container with thyme, basil and mint. I ordered it off of Ebay simply because I liked the wooden crate that came with it; and because it was one of the

Yesterday was my first MSU (Michigan State University) sponsored food preservation course. The first class was an introduction to food preservation basics and had the capacity of 100 "students"

I may only be 51 years old, but I have never heard my parents talk about trying days as we are enduring right now. And they lived through the Detroit riots just a few months before I was born. My parents

Over the weekend I was busy outdoors transplanting more vegetable and herb plants into the gardens and containers, so I knew dinner had to be simple and easy. So early Sunday morning I raided the deep

The other day I made a post about two new items we had picked up for cheap and free and Friday morning I was outside early, before the raindrops and thunder hit my area, setting to work using both these

Right before we went under shelter in place orders on March 23, we had decided to venture into un-chartered waters. We took some of our savings and dove into the stock market. We took Mr Golden D's profit

We've been in our current residence for three summers now and the first growing season I happened to notice this mullein plant growing in my front garden and herb bed. I left it alone; and to be honest,