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Yipee Ya Whoooooo…I harvested 32pounds of peas yesterday… It was a family effort to use the pressure canner for the first time. After the handsome husband worked hard all day I announced that he had to be in charge of the first canner load of peas…so basically I told him “read the directions…figure out how Read More >>
Local Cherries went on sale this week .99 cents a lb. We canned 14 pints and feed some to the chickens. We had no idea that chickens liked cherries. Those birds are getting very comfortable in their new home and around us. Anytime one of us goes near the eglu they come running in hopes Read More >>
I read somewhere online that you need roughly 21 lbs of shelling peas to equal 7 pint jars of canned peas. So this being the first year I have ever planted shelling peas, I was so excited when I brought in my 3 bowls full of peas. I went right to the scale and boy Read More >>
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