Carol J. Alexander is the author of Homestead Cooking with Carol: Bountiful Make-ahead Meals, available in Kindle and paperback from most major sellers. She lives in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia with her family, a gaggle of geese, a flock of chickens, a kit of pigeons, three hives of honeybees, and whatever else the boys drag home.
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