by Nancy Meissner | Nancy's Journal, Off Grid Garden
What is the overwhelming plague that inevitably comes along with a wonderfully healthy growing garden?? You know the answer without a doubt—it’s those horrible, thick, fast-growing weeds! Now—would you like to know a secret to getting rid of most of those weeds? Six...
by Nancy Meissner | Nancy's Journal, Off Grid Kitchen
For years I did live canning and bread making demos as part of our seminar lineup at event centers and churches. And to demonstrate water bath canning I almost always prepared and made a fresh fruit jam. The Case For Pectin I discussed and recommended using a natural...
by Nancy Meissner | Nancy's Journal, Off Grid Kitchen
Our Montmorency cherry trees are loaded this year! Typically it seems we have a couple of bountiful years and then an off year. Last year was definitely an off-year. Now I’m thinking about what to do with all my bounty of fresh cherries coming up! My...
by Nancy Meissner | Nancy's Journal, Off Grid Garden
Try as I might, carrots are not usually a great crop in my garden. They often don’t produce well, or they are small, and sometimes they just don't turn out very tasty. But a few years ago my carrot harvest turned out beautifully! The carrots grew tall and sweet, and I...
by Nancy Meissner | Nancy's Journal, Off Grid Garden
Back in March, I started my garden indoors! I used the super easy Jiffy Seed Starting Trays to plant my seeds. With 72 tiny peat pots in each tray, I’ve found them to work better than anything else I’ve ever used as a starting place for my baby plants. I...
by Nancy Meissner | Nancy's Journal, Off Grid Garden
Root crops are some of the absolute easiest to grow! As I plan out my garden crops each spring, one variety of vegetables that just has to make it onto my list is beets. Homegrown beets are very delicious—but sometimes beets are overlooked, especially if you haven’t...
