Dried Summer Yellow Squash Chips
Taste of summer in yellow squash chips. The bounty of the garden always comes alive with the baskets of yellow summer squash making their way into my kitchen. I am always looking for new ways to work them into my meal plans so this year I found a way to work them into...
Blackberry Pie Filling Recipe – The Taste of Summer in a Jar
Canned Blackberry Pie Filling Recipe from Scratch Not thorns in my finger tips or the 100-degree heat can keep me out of my blackberry patches this time of the year. Armed with a big straw hat, jeans, boots, a long-sleeve shirt I headed to the blackberry patch for a...
‘Sweet’ finds…homemade canning labels
I am already thinking about the holidays and since we are cutting way back on things this year I want to give some of my summer canning away as gifts. I went looking for some ideas to make homemade canning labels. I found so many great ideas! One of the best...
Canned homemade spaghetti sauce
I am so lucky that I have three farmers markets within 30 minutes of my house. On any given weekend I can take a short drive and find anything I may need. This trip I needed tomatoes to make a couple batches of my homemade spaghetti sauce since we didn’t...
Canning tips for beginners
Canning Tips Are you new to canning? Do you want to jump right in so you can feel the satisfaction of seeing your pantry filled with all your hard work? If you’re looking for step by step canning tips for beginners I would highly recommend reading Balls Home...
Hidden away in the Upstate of South Carolina is a little farm where we call home. Surrounded by century-old pecan and oak trees, we live on a 120-year-old homestead. By the grace of God, we were called to restore this 1890 farmhouse along with its barns, gardens and long-forgotten cotton field to its original working farm. Dedicating ourselves to reusing, recycling and making do we are living a very simple life building our backyard farm.
