If you keep a freezer full of food, it can be difficult to know how long all the different foods will maintain their quality. Here's a guide to how long foods will keep before texture, flavor and color deteriorate.
The “raw pack” method for canning tuna at home does away with cooking the fish beforehand and delivers the unique flavor of tuna cooked in its own juices. Either fresh or frozen tuna can be used.
Home cooks can make their own roasted sunflower, pumpkin and squash seeds by following a few simple steps — wash, dry and roast. And they'll keep for a long time if they are frozen or refrigerated.
Homemade sauerkraut can sometimes go wrong — too soft, too slimy, off-color or just plain moldy or rotten. Here's a guide to common problems with homemade sauerkraut and how to address them the next time around.
If you preserve fish, poultry or meat by canning, get answers to common problems such as fish with pinholes, chicken with black deposits or meat that is too dry. Find out the reasons why and what you can do about it.
Freezer failure can mean the loss of a large investment in food, time and money. Here's a guide to being prepared for freezer failure, what to do if it happens, and which foods you can save and which you should toss.
An ecolawn is a low input alternative to a conventional perennial grass lawn. Ecolawns provide a turf-type ground cover and tolerate typical uses of grass lawns.
Regularly producing sustainable yields of high-quality cherries is possible only where site and other conditions are near optimal. Properly evaluating a prospective orchard location, determining available resources, and ...
This publication describes the parasites most commonly found in sheep and goats and outlines methods for identifying, testing for, and treating parasite infestations. This publication is printed to order and shipped ...