Lisa MatthewsJul 25, 2016canning, cooking, DIY, gardening, green beans, growing food, homesteading, preservation, pressure canning
Our green beans have been a big disappointment this year. It seems that some years are just not good gardening years, despite the best of intentions, hard work and knowledge. A friend came to our rescue and offered up some of her green beans that she did not think...
Lisa MatthewsJul 24, 2016canning, corn, gardening, growing food, homesteading, lifestyle, preservation, pressure canning
I home canned corn for the first time in 2014. Prior to that, we had always frozen our corn for home storage. While this is a great way to preserve corn, in the summer of 2013, we had a freezer go out, and did not discover it quickly enough to save anything. We...
Lisa MatthewsJul 1, 2016homesteading, lifestyle, Uncategorized
Over the last couple of weeks I have become involved in a couple of conversations that have really gotten me thinking deeply about my motivation for living the lifestyle that I do. I was raised on a farm in SW Missouri and, though we weren’t necessarily living...
