Welcome back to the HomeAcre Hop! Your hosts are: Ann from Summers Acres Carol from Everything Home with Carol Lisa Lynn from The Self Sufficient HomeAcre and me! We’d love to stay in touch! A follow on Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, … Continue reading
The HomeAcre Hop Has a New Co-host! Help us give a warm welcome to Ann from Summers Acres! We’re so excited to have Ann joining us and making our hop even better than before. Please be sure to stop by … Continue reading
The Untrained Housewife’s Guide to Getting Prepared: Surviving Emergencies Without Stress By Robin Egerton and Angela England 176 pages ISBN: 0615777082 *** Everyone remembers the Y2K scare. I can recall numerous individuals who stockpiled toilet paper, ammo, dehydrated carrots, … Continue reading
Welcome Carol! Lisa and I are happy to introduce a new co-host to the HomeAcre Hop! We couldn’t be more pleased to announce that Carol from Everything Home with Carol is joining our crew! So here’s your list of hosts … Continue reading
One of the most treasured possessions in my vast collection of cookbooks is a vintage copy of Farm Journal’s Freezing and Canning Cookbook. While canning has been around for generations, this little volume was published just as freezing was becoming … Continue reading
Chuck roast and carrots was my very first experience with pressure canning, the experience described here. As I mentioned before, I realize cutting my canning teeth on such a project was not very practical. It would perhaps have been wiser … Continue reading
I haven’t always been a fan of canned chili. To me the words “canned” and “chili” conjure up images of something heated over a camp fire and loaded with spongy bits of processed meat food. It wasn’t until I saw … Continue reading
As I mentioned previously in this post, one of the items on my Christmas list this year was a set of Tattler lids. And sure enough, my husbie, thoughtful person that he is, rewarded me with not just one, but … Continue reading
I tried to write this post as a sort of “Twelve Days of Christmas” ; requesting my true love for such things as twelve arborvitae trees (we need a windbreak), ten dairy goats for milking, FIVE TAA-TTLER Lids, and a … Continue reading
…that can be put together in a relatively short amount of time. This post is for those people (like me) who would love to give homemade gifts but are not one of those people who thinks about it in July, … Continue reading
…a canning project (And you can tell from the photo that I am a newbie canner.) I made these lovely canned apples last fall before our move. They came together easily, and since they are processed in a water bath … Continue reading
In spite of the fact that we are building a new home, packing up our current home, and preparing to move, I have tried to keep up with one canning project per week in an effort to stock our pantry … Continue reading
Even before we purchased our acreage, it has always been my dream to have a huge garden and stock the pantry with everything we grew. I have been water bath canning for a few years and have always had good … Continue reading