Granny Sue's News and Reviews

We picked up our baby chicks today. Some years I order them, but this year I decided to see what the feedstores might bring in, and also s...

I posted something on Facebook about making teabags and got a few questions, so I thought I would show the process here. It's very simpl...

A few weeks ago I wrote about my efforts to find a way to make good coffee without an electric drip po t. We tried a Porcelier, a porcelai...

Our plans for last weekend: Dig potatoes. Plow garden and plant cover crop. Pick grapes. Make grape juice. Pick elderberries. Make jelly. Cu...

Menus this week: Corn, tomatoes, cucumbers. Corn, tomatoes, squash, chicken. Corn, tomatoes, squash. Corn. Tomato sandwiches. Corn, steak, s...

So the guy who tells me about this is young and single. Why did I believe him? Because I had a bushel of Early Sunglow corn to deal with ...

More pics from the garden: The cabbages--Savoy and Stonehead --are ready to cut. I do not remember ever having cabbage ready this soon, a t...

What's going on in the garden now? Here's what Larry's been up to while I was at the writers conference this weekend: The peas a...

Larry has put a lot of time in the gardens this year, and we're seeing early rewards. Yesterday we got our first new potatoes of the se...

This is a good time of year. The garden greens are in lush abundance--snap peas, spinach, chard and beet greens. Larry picked a 5-gallon buc...

But these babies are real turkeys--really! At the feed store, bronze and white turkey poults mix it up. Aunt Kate (the new Aunt Kate to b...

The seeds are sprouting now--broccoli and Savoy cabbage are first of course. The tomatoes will be next, possibly the celery soon after, then...

I've mentioned the log room or cabin room many times on my blog, and have shown it in a few photos. I found some of the photos I took of...

It's been a gray, rainy day today. What to do on such a day? We could sit inside by the fire, which was very inviting this morning... bu...