The Salty Florida Cracker

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Florida homesteader, military veteran. Boomer, Outdoorsman, hunting, farm life, cooking, food preserving, wine making, florida fishing, florida outdoors, jac...

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Hive inspection and marking queens

Separating tomato plants for potting.

Checking the hive progress and doing a queen check.

Cutting and planting sweet potato slips

Adding and expanding more Beehives and bee colonies on the homestead.

First harvest, fresh picked, cleaned and cooked straight from field to table.

Opening the hive to check the queen and to add sugar water. .

More pond construction April 26, 2026, getting close to finishing up.

Digging deeper and wider, the pond construction continues.

Adding honey bees to the homesteadfarm.

Back to the pond build. Now that the crops are planted, its time to finish the pond.

New fruit and citrus trees and a few potted plants.

March 28, 2026

Plowing & Harrowing the Garden Getting Ready to Plant Corn, Potatoes & Vegetables

We Hit into the Natural Spring While Digging Out the Farm Pond! 🚜💧

Deeper and wider, the pond build contines.

Fresh cut swamp cabbage, clean and cook. A step back in time, old Florida cooking recipe.

John Deere Broke Down… So I Rebuilt It! Back to Digging the Pond

Catastrophic tractor fail while digging in the bottom of the pond.

Chili recipe for the cold days. Must try.

Processing & bottling pineapple habanero hot sauce.

Bottling and corking finishing process.

Wine from primary to secondary fermentation. Homemade grape wine

Tepache, completed, taste testing. Fermented pineapple drink.

Homemade wine (how to) making homemade grape wine 101.

Homemade Tepache. Try this recipe.

Pineapple habanero fermented hot sauce.

Liver & Onions

Cabbage and meatballs, Delicious dinner, easy and healthy.

Continuation pond construction JD 3032e Runs at only 1800 rpms, digging a pond.