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Canning Tips

Posted on July 1, 2014 by Mark Zeiger

Soon, our homestead will once again become “canning central” as we preserve our fruit, vegetable, and fish harvests. A few years ago, we attended a presentation on canning from the Alaska Cooperative Extension Service (like your County Cooperative Extension, except we … Continue reading →

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Heating With Wood: Cutting Your Own Firewood

Posted on February 15, 2014 by Mark Zeiger

As I indicated in the last post (Heating With Wood: Scrounging Free Firewood) now that we live on our “homestead,” we cut our own firewood exclusively. Our situation is extremely rare in today’s world: we have our own heavily forested land. … Continue reading →

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