Will and I took a trip to the back of the Big Pines forty...

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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

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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 and white spotted registered buck and his mother is a...

It’s still wet here, but boy is the garden ever producing!

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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

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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?

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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...