This is last night’s prospect from the homestead. We’re getting some warm, dry weather lately, so I haven’t had much time to blog. Things continue to happen, though. I’ll try to have some stories for you soon. In the meantime, enjoy the view!
After 9:00 pm, south of Haines, Alaska (Photo: Mark Zeiger).
Michelle has said before in this blog and elsewhere that growing things makes her feel good. One of the ways she stretches our food dollar is to make yogurt at home, using live cultures.
We use yogurt in place of milk for most things. Not only is it better for us, it keeps better than milk, which is very important, since we have no refrigerator. We used to buy yogurt, but it’s too expensive. We figured out that it’s far cheaper to buy milk and make it into yogurt. This is especially cost effective if we manage to buy milk just after the weekly barge arrives, when the older gallons go on sale, sometimes for half off. Continue reading
