Off-Grid Foods

Image source: Pixabay.com At the height of summer, it’s easy to be seduced by the baskets, bushels and flats full of juicy, fragrant peaches. But what...

Image source: Pixabay.com Did you know that there is a nutritious food source literally dropping from your trees each fall? In fact, unless you are a...

Image source: Pixabay.com Apples are perhaps the most well-known and quintessential American tree fruit in existence today. They can be found on produce shelves from coast...

While working cattle at my in-laws’ ranch recently I caught myself dreaming about the past, running through a checklist of things I take for granted that...

Image source: Pinterest   There are a lot of misconceptions out there about canning safety. As is true with many topics, information found on the Internet...

Image source: suburbanforagers.com   If you are looking for a tasty, calorie-dense wild food, you can’t go wrong with hickory nuts. The sweet, fatty raw meat...

Image source: Pixabay.com Humans, for the most part, raise and eat vegetarian animals. From an agricultural perspective, that makes sense. A cow fed on grass is...

Image source: Pixabay.com While the taste of fresh apples can’t be beat, extending the shelf life of apples has been practiced for centuries as a method...

Image source: Pixabay.com If you’re a home gardener about to drown in tomatoes rolling in off the vines and demanding to be consumed before they go...

Image source: Pixabay.com While making plans with a farm apprentice regarding her upcoming move to our homestead and discussing room-and-board details, she let me know that...