Thirteen quarts of applesauce, done. Now to think of what else to do with the other forty pounds of apples! What have you done with a harvest of apples? Send me your ideas.

Sean is now the official keeper of the grass. Check that off the list. Don’t ya just love kids!

I have been making my own laundry detergent for quite some time now and I love it! It is so easy and so much cheaper than commercial detergent, costing about 1/3 of the price, making each load just pennies!  Note: I make a larger batch so I did the conversions enabling me to get the ...

Here is the info on our first chicken raising class of 2011! – An Introduction to Backyard Chickens Date: Saturday, March 26, 2011 Time: 10:00am -11:30am 1pm – 2:30pm Cost: $25 per person Location: Harlan Wolfe Ranch, 915 W. Cheyenne Rd (one block west of 8th St.) on the west side of Colorado Springs, CO. Presented ...

As often as I can, I try and make holidays or little celebrations that much more special. And the more I try to make fun memories, I find that these little “extras” that mean so much to me and to my family, don’t have to cost a lot or take a lot of my time. Many ...

While I was still in college I worked as an aide for a kindergarten teacher named Connie Fritch and every year she made this recipe with her students for their Thanksgiving Feast. She just so happens to be the same lady who started the Honey Baked Ham stores, so as you can imagine, it was ...

Or make that the freezer. Our little piggy weighed in at 350lbs live and his hanging weight was 292lbs! Just for the record, Rosie’s hanging weight was 252lbs and BlackJack was 283lbs. So as you can imagine we have been busy prepping our pork. We really wanted to try curing our own cuts as we had heard the butcher ...

I remember as a child visiting my grandmother in South Gate, CA and seeing her big clothesline in the backyard stung with many garments blowing in the breeze, always envisioning her bygone era of simplicity. Growing into adulthood in a time when convenience was the goal, my family always used appliances to do nature’s work. ...

Today my little helper and I canned peaches to have stored up for the winter when there is two feet of snow outside and not a peach anywhere to be found. We had a lot of fun and learned a couple of valuable lessons as well for our next canning sessions; 1. work in smaller batches ...