
After I wrote the post about applesauce, I figured that a post with some home canning safety tips would be in order. I have found that the website www.healthycanning.com as well as the NCHFP and the CDC are great resources for home canning guidelines. Internet-land can be a great deep pool of knowledge, but sometimes…

I’ve made jam many times before, but I’ve never actually made applesauce before….I know, I know, that is crazy! I went apple picking with friends at a local orchard. I had all these beautiful apples and I knew we wouldn’t eat them all before they went bad, so I decided to take the not so…

This is a farm friends, and the work is literally never done here. We’ve been here for a year and we’ve been so busy with big projects that there is a lot of little things that have fallen through the cracks lately. We are taken the next few weeks to get a little cleaned up…

We’ve been in our house just shy of a year now, and we have had a really hard time growing grass directly behind our house. It gets a lot of foot traffic and the kids play in the dirt there. I have been wanting to do something about it for ages. This past winter, we…

Here at BlueLand Farm we have introduced a new animal to the mix and I am so excited about it!! We bought some guineas!!! Guinea Hen Keets to be exact, Keet is the term for the babies. Guineas are an African game hen, we call them our African Attack Chickens! They have faces that only…