Will and I took a trip to the back of the Big Pines forty...
It was nice yesterday so Will took me out to see a spot he'd discovered while making ATV trails through the dead, blown-down fir on our new Big Pines forty. It was a gentle...
Our new Nubian buckling
After months of searching, we finally found a new spotted Nubian buck out of good milking bloodlines. His daddy is a huge, gorgeous black and white spotted registered buck and his mother is a...
It’s still wet here, but boy is the garden ever producing!
Haying has been difficult. We've been having significant rain every three days or so. Not half an inch or less, it's been 2 inches, 3½ inches (and more) at a time. The hayfields never...
Q and A: fruit in honey and canning soup base
Fruit in honey
Enjoy your blogs and so forth… Very informative and innovative. However, I see a bit of a problem in one area…
People write in asking about making creamed honey. I am a beekeeper...
What do you do when you come home tired and it’s past supper time?
I faced that yesterday. So I dashed for the pantry, took out a pint of chicken broth, a pint of mixed vegetables, a half pint of mushrooms, and a half-pint of chicken dices. Back...