Easy Black Bean Dip is a vintage recipe straight from the 1960’s. It’s super easy and can be served either hot or cold. With easy to find ingredients and simple tools, this is sure to become a family favorite!
Easy Black Bean Dip
Prepare Like a Farmer and Apple Cider Beef Stew
Holy Cats! I caught the TV news and saw shots of empty grocery store shelves. No toilet paper, canned goods or frozen vegetables as far as the eye could see! My heart goes out to anyone experiencing stress getting needed supplies.
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Choosing a New Chicken Flock and Rice Raisin Pudding
Our hearts are a little bit broken. Most of our chickens have died this year. Our flock lasted ten years, and then over the span of six months, they passed a few at a time, and now only two remain. Continue reading “Choosing a New Chicken Flock and Rice Raisin Pudding”
Why I Pray and Vintage Cherry Squares
When you’re as old as Lila (age 91), you have wisdom. When Lila was in college in her 50’s, she asked her religion professor, Dr. David McKechnie Hay, for a list of the most important books he had ever read.
Cleaning a Farm Windbreak and Simple Fruit Salad
We let things go! Trees, broken branches and undergrowth have gotten a bit out of control in our windbreak. We will work in January instead of the summer to cut out undergrowth and trees because it’s easier to pull out vegetation when it’s dead and the ground is not yet frozen solid. No chemicals are used, just hard work.
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Harvesting Soybeans in the Winter and Chicken Tortilla Soup
This year’s growing and harvest season have been white-knuckle. If you remember, the planting season was difficult, the growing season was difficult, and the harvest season was difficult.
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Grandmaternity Leave and Pineapple Fluff
Familyandfarming is taking a Grandmaternity Leave this November and December! We have a new grandchild!
A Difficult Harvest and Pumpkin Spice Caramel Apple Dip
Between a Rock and a Very Hard Place
Can’t win for losing. Have you ever heard of that phrase? It means you can’t win if you’re losing all of the time.
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Late Corn Harvest and Apple Pie Pork Chops
“I’m late! I’m late for a very important date!” exclaimed the White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland.
So are we.
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Harvest Preparation and Avocado Dressing
The crops are drying out. They need to. We are hoping to start combining corn soon. When we think back to the rough start of spring and the dry spots of summer, most of the corn crop did surprisingly well!