Make your own maple sugar with one single ingredient, heat, and a bit of elbow grease. Learn how to transform pure maple syrup into unrefined maple sugar. It is easy to make maple sugar by simply boiling pure maple syrup until it evaporates into a granulated sugar form. Maple sugar has a strong maple fragrance but a mild maple flavor….
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Molting is a natural process birds go through where they lose their old feathers and grow in new ones. Here are tips to help you understand what is happening and how to care for molting chickens. Are your chickens molting? Molting is a natural process birds go through where they lose old feathers and grow in new ones. Growing feathers…
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This homemade black walnut extract will elevate your baking with deep walnut flavor. See how to make this old-fashioned flavoring from foraged black walnuts. There was a time when a bottle of black walnut flavored extract was a common ingredient in the spice cabinet. It has fallen out of favor over the years and has been discontinued by the major…
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Do you have black walnut trees nearby? See how to take advantage of this foraged food by learning when to harvest and how to hull, cure, and store black walnuts. In our area, black walnuts begin to mature and fall from the branches in late September into October. We try to gather as many as we can daily before the…
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There is nothing like the fragrance of fresh homemade bread in the kitchen. This basic country white bread recipe is so easy to make that you will never buy bread again. [sc name=”AFFILIATE” ] This is a classic white bread recipe that I make time after time. It makes two loaves of the most delicious white bread perfect for morning…
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Celebrate the start of the spring foraging season with this creamy fiddlehead soup with chives. A perfect earthy flavored soup for those cool spring evenings. This chowder like, soup takes advantage of the early spring harvest of ostrich fern fiddleheads and chives as they emerge from their winter slumber. [sc name=”AFFILIATE” ] One of the first spring foraging delicacies to…
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Before you let your chickens free range, it is a good idea to have a strategy to get them back into their pen. Here are tips to train your chickens to come when called. One of the most hilarious things to witness is a flock of chickens running towards you when you call. The flap their wings, roll their bodies,…
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Whether you tap trees and make your own maple syrup, or buy in bulk from a local source, canning maple syrup in glass jars will help it last. Learn how to hot pack maple syrup for long-term food storage. Maple sugaring is at peak right now and we are getting a plentiful amount of sap from our trees this year….
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We survived the drive home with bees loose in the car, we survived installing a bee nuc, and we (and the bees) learned how to coexist. See how we did it. The last time we got bees was… not a success. The biggest mistake we made was choosing to get a bee package to install into an empty hive. As…
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