Homesteading with Jackie Clay
I’m having a sad day
Yesterday, when I jumped on my solar-powered golf cart to run out to the Wolf Garden to plant more beans, my trusty garden cart didn't take off like usual. It kind of went up...
Holy cow, are we ever busy right now!
People ask us what we do with our spare time and we just blink and say "sleep." Honestly, there is no spare time, as we're going crazy, planting. After all, two old timers hand-planting...
It finally rained!
After weeks without rain, we were so very thankful that we had two days and nights with at least a decent partial rain. All totaled, we got about ¾ of an inch. But boy...
We’re planting garden in just about dust
But we pray daily for a good rain to get things going once it is planted. I went with our friend, Tom, who helped us so much after Bob died, when we were building...
It’s still hot and dry at the homestead
We've been planting like crazy every single day, from morning until dark. I got in dozens of 100-foot rows of beans, both pole and bush, quite a few rows of squash, about a half-acre...
Our dry weather continues
Boy, we could sure use some rain! The upside of this dryness is that we've got all the gardens tilled up twice, with manure spread in between tillings. As Will and I do nearly...
With dry weather, we’re getting lots done
All of our vegetable seeds that get planted inside have been planted. Now, we're busy outside. Yesterday, Will tilled the Main Garden with the little Kubota. As there are tight areas, you have to...
Yesterday we had a memorial service for our son, Javid
He passed away after a long siege of health issues in February. But we wanted to wait to have a service for him until the weather was nicer and the wild fruit trees in...
With the heat and wind, there are some bad forest fires around the north...
Fortunately for us, they aren't close, nor are we in any danger from them. But one has already burned 15,000 acres and 144 structures and shows no containment, despite heroic efforts from planes, choppers,...
We enjoyed another fantastic family day out at Byrns Greenhouse
For the last 11 or so years, as much of our family as possible met at the Byrns Greenhouse near Zim, Minnesota, for our family buy-them-out-of-flowers day. Okay, so it seems to me! As...
