Lately I have been thinking a lot about my grandmother, Sarah Mae Eggleston Harris, who was one of my heroines. She knew so much about growing food, fishing, cooking, canning, sewing, loving and living a good life. (more…)
The soundtrack of the homestead lately should be Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld, because around here, we’re doing the can-can!
Home canning is a quintessentially Alaskan activity closely associated with homesteading. It’s also very much a part of my life growing up. And yet, I’ve always managed to avoid direct involvement in the process, until now. (more…)
Haines Arpt., AK