• DIY - Eat - Food Storage & Preservation

    How to Make Tomato Powder

    It is officially the Time of Bounty again.  You’ve sown your seeds, cared for their sprouts, transplanted and top dressed the healthiest growers and are now harvesting a bounty of tomatoes and squash and corn and maybe even peppers from your garden several times a week if not every day.…

  • Eat - Food Storage & Preservation

    A Half of a Cow

    Well, we’ve gone and done it.  We’ve invested in a half of a cow. Holy moly. After last January’s purchase of a quarter of a cow, we decided to move forward and move up in the ordering department.  So, about 2 months ago, we placed our order with D&R Ranch again…

  • Eat - Food Storage & Preservation

    Harvest Swap

    Last weekend, Tool Lady and I attended our very first Harvest Swap!  It was based on the framework of the Food Swap Network and was hosted by the Radical Homemakers of New Mexico (Erin and Kyce)! Although there were instructions given, neither of us had ever attended anything like this before so we really didn’t…

  • Food Storage & Preservation

    Pickled Rhubarb

    After making several batches of rhubarb jam earlier this summer, I was kind of at a loss as to what else to make with our last harvest of rhubarb.  So, I asked Tool Lady to find something that looked good to her and she did! Pickled rhubarb?  Who knew?  Well,…