Our sunny, warm weather is continuing

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Ok, so now we're worrying about drought again. But in the meantime, we're working like mad. I tilled the area where our onion plants...

We’ve hit the big gardens full force

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We got some warm, dry days and we're really at it now. Will tried out the new-to-us manure spreader and I watched as he...

I’m canning nearly every day now

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Our beans are in! And so are our peppers. This year I'm making batch after batch of Cowboy Candy, a candied jalapeño. Wow, are...

Oh my! I have to can up a freezer full soon

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I thought that Will had the meat from our two steers all sold. But he doesn't and a half of one of them has...

How do you keep livestock water from freezing solid off-grid?

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Obviously, we can't use an electric stock tank heater. Propane heaters are expensive to buy -- and to run! Will remembered his dad telling...