We’ve been haying
With a stretch of hot, dry weather, we've started our haying in earnest. Yesterday we put up more than 100 bales in the loft of our storage building and this morning, Will and our...
We’ve found plenty to keep us busy this winter
With our new mini-business, Seed Treasures (www.seedtreasures.com), we keep hustling, sorting, and packaging seeds. Will does that while I package envelopes and fill the orders. We used to be kind of bored this time...
As usual, our beavers were right
We had a very hot, dry summer. Around here, some swamps are dry and even rivers are showing more rocks than water. Yep, we got rain. But only about 1/10 of an inch or...
We hosted a local homeschooling group last Saturday
A homeschooling friend asked if their group could come out and tour our homestead on Saturday. Always happy to encourage new homesteaders, especially kids, we said YES!
Boy, was that fun! We had a yard...
Q and A: livestock feeder and canning baked beans
Livestock feeder
We recently purchased two 4 month old heifer calves. One is a Holstein and one a Jersey/Milking shorthorn cross. We are new to this cow thing and are learning as we go. Our...