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Award Winning Peach Preserves
By Nicole Williams / in Food Preservation / September 20, 2015Peach Preserves! [caption id="attachment_358" align="alignleft" width="300"] These babies took third place in the Tennessee State Fair![/caption]
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The $1500 Sandwich That Should Cost $3
By Nicole Williams / in Country Living / September 19, 2015Loved the video, laughed out loud several times. But how in the world did this sandwich cost $1,500? It cost $1,500 because the entire effort was oriented toward a single sandwich, by a guy who lives ...
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Food Shortage: Thought of the Walk
By Nicole Williams / in Thought of the Walk, Political Rant / September 1, 2015There is a more understanding surrounding the concept of how markets are better in crisis than command and control in this article about the government seizing crops from farmers to stock government r...
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Cooking Sweet Potato Greens
By Nicole Williams / in Uncategorized / August 13, 2015Update: Some of my non native English speaking readers have noted that potato greens are poisonous, and THEY ARE! Please do not cook the leaves of potato plants. The Sweet Potato (Ipomoea batatas) pla...
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Don’t PANIC: Your jar broke in the canner
By Nicole Williams / in Food Preservation / July 31, 2015Today, I am sadly reminded of what to do when you have a jar break in the canner. You can reduce your aggravation ten times if you act calmly and swiftly. First, how do you know you broke a jar? TW...
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Jamin’ the blackberries – with extra pectin this year
By Nicole Williams / in Local Tennessee, Kitchen Tips, Country Living / July 26, 2015The homestead guilt I have felt for the past two years of working my buns off on Spark Freedom instead of furthering the homestead has been immense. On the one hand, my personal goals of independence ...
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Great listening while canning
By Nicole Williams / in Wild Edible Plants, Health N Weightloss, Country Living / June 17, 2015This weekend while canning I came across this podcast about plants you should grow if you want to live off your land. It comes from "The Survival Podcast by Jack Spirko. I plan to listen to it a few t...
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Wild Raspberry Summer
By Nicole Williams / in Wild Edible Plants, Recipe, Local Tennessee, Country Living / June 14, 2015It starts slowly. [caption id="attachment_334" align="alignleft" width="300"] First wild Raspberries of the season.[/caption] A few little wizard ha shaped berries. In Tennessee, wild raspber...
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Pickles have forever changed for me today
By Nicole Williams / in Kitchen Tips, Country Living / July 13, 2014It seems like everything ripens at the same time in the summer. In years past, we have reverted to canning quick pickles during the cucumber glut of the summer because we were also pressure canning co...
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Kicking Jet Lag’s Grip in Cala d’Or
By Nicole Williams / in Uncategorized / May 13, 2014The key to getting past jet lag is (drumroll please): don't take a nap! Nine years ago was my last overseas trip and it worked back then and it still works today. Cala d'Or was a great town to arriv...
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