Q and A: laundry soap and giving spoiled fruit to livestock
Laundry soap
Is your laundry soap recipe, found in BHM, safe to wash our baby's clothes in? We are expecting our first child in October. One of the questions that was raised by grandma was...
Q and A: onions and chicken tractor
Onions
I let some of my onions go to seed two years ago, and last year planted those seeds. I don't know what type of onions the seeds grew from. Some, not all, of those...
We’ve got beautiful wild orchids in bloom
We have a "secret" spot along the woods where Showy Lady's Slipper orchids bloom, the state flower of Minnesota. And they are just now starting to bloom in force. There are dozens and dozens...
Our “crippled’ doeling is “fixed”
Maybe you'll remember that when we got our wedding cow, Lace, from our friends, Abner and Carol, they also gave me a little doeling with a leg that was contracted from birth. They hoped...
Acres and acres of pumpkins
We sure had fun yesterday even though it was kind of trying to rain off and on. We drove 60 miles to a big market garden west of us to pick up a heaping...