Q and A: Pinto beans, storing pasta, and home insurance while building

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Pinto beans I am interested in purchasing a brand of pinto beans called Navaho Pinto Beans. Are you familiar with this variety, and where I...

There’s more than one way to skin a cat

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Our friend, Eric, lives off grid. He works hard and enjoys a solar shower every evening. But now it's getting colder and the sun...

We are harvesting a bounty of carrots

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As our nighttime temperatures are drifting into the very low twenties, I figured I'd better get at it and pull the remaining carrots and...

Our new Nubian buckling

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After months of searching, we finally found a new spotted Nubian buck out of good milking bloodlines. His daddy is a huge, gorgeous black...

Winter came…in October

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Thinking back to Laura Ingalls Wilder's book, The Long Winter, we looked outside to five inches of new snow and nighttime temperatures in the...