Make Homemade Sweet Tamales
Want to know how to make homemade sweet tamales? We have a couple of recipes.
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Too much feed can hurt your animals, especially sheep and goats. No farmer wants to see their goats and sheep in the feed room.
Storing root vegetables; tips and tricks
One of the issues that faces homesteaders after we have grown our crops, is how to store them. Particularly root vegetables. So, I wanted to talk a little bit about storing root vegetables today. Obviously if you don’t store them correctly, they can spoil. Here’s how to store root vegetables according to George McLaughlin:“Sweet potatoes …
Quickly Make Exquisite 3 Ingredient Egg Drop Soup
Cold weather is here. With the arrival of cold weather, most of us like to have a nice bowl of hot soup when the days are frigid. So, I thought I would share my favorite 3 ingredient egg drop soup recipe with you all. So, here’s what you are going to need to make this …
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How to Grow and Sell Sweet Potato Slips
I love to grow and sell sweet potato slips! This is one of my favorite spring time activities, even though it involves a fair amount of time and work. “Slip” is the most common term used for “cutting,” in sweet potato nomenclature. Sweet potatoes are grown from slips and the majority of those who grow sweet potatoes …
Growing Beans On Corn (Cornfield Beans)
I think most gardeners try their hand at growing cornfield beans at some point. I can remember trying to grow beans on corn when I was only 10 or 11 years old. It was a miserable flop! I didn’t understand the basics and had no one to teach me. The Joy of Three Sisters Gardening …
Sweet Potatoes as Ornamentals
In gardening forums I often find the question about whether the ornamental varieties of sweet potatoes produce good roots for the kitchen. Some gardeners wonder if ornamental sweet potatoes are good to eat but how many have considered regular sweet potatoes for ornamental use? Many years ago, when I first saw ornamental sweet potatoes, I …
Why Diversity Matters with Sweet Potatoes
The topic of sweet potato diversity is pretty obscure. If they think about it at all, most folk believe that the extent of it is that there are some red colored sweet potatoes beside the regular orange ones, found in the supermarket. Don’t let the supermarket fool you. Sweet potatoes are far more diverse than …
The Value of “Feel Good Crops”
Some years ago I think I actually coined the term, “feel good crop.” You see, here in Oklahoma we garden in an extreme environment. We hold the continental US record for the hottest 40 days and nights in a row and, I’ve seen colder winters here than we ever saw on the East Coast. We …
Advantages To Homesteading
When I was in high school, I understood homesteading to be something that was only done back in the 1700 to early 1900s at best. However, as I have been living on my own for some years, I have come to realize something. Homesteading is still modern. It can be. There are some advantages …