Who else loves to water bath or pressure can? What are your favorite things to preserve this way? My top favorite has to be dried beans. The texture I can get pressure canning chickpeas makes the best/easiest hummus.

Hi Team, This month we have a special guest and member @Joshua Morris giving a webinar. Josh has been homesteading with permaculture principles for over 20+ years. Top 5 prizes this month are a copy of his book, Thrive in the Coming Dark Age: How to Build the Ultimate Survival Homestead He will be presenting later this month.

What are everyone’s 2025 goals for their learning and/or homesteading journey? I’ll kick it off! My goal is to sell my extra produce next year. Which also ties into I need my garden to be way more efficient so I have even more to sell.

Any recommendations for how to source soil/compost? I need to top off some beds and add a few raised beds/5 gallon buckets. Last year I sourced it locally and got some delivered to my house in a dump truck (to avoid the plastic) full of weed seed. Any recommendations to get soil/compost or how to fill raised beds cost effectively?

Tomorrow starts a new adventure for us. We are praying all goes well with what's about to transpire. Our ten year anniversary and Christmas present rolled into one. This involves permaculture!