We may be in northern Minnesota, but we’ve already got tomatoes on the vine!
Okay, okay, so the plants are in containers. I cannot tell a lie. When it was time to transplant the tomatoes and peppers this spring I planted a dozen in large pots. So while...
We are putting our orchard to bed for winter
Will is busy discing our new pasture on the new 40 acres so it'll be ready to plant in pasture seeding next spring. I'm trying to get our garden and orchard put to bed...
The horse pasture gets a renovation
You'll remember that last fall when Will was here for a two week visit, he took our bulldozer and rough-cleared 2/3 of our horse pasture (which had been young poplar woods before that). During...
Q and A: baking sourdough bread and pickled peppers
Baking sourdough bread
I have your Pantry Cookbook and am baking the Sourdough bread on page 128 using the Sourdough Starter II from page 127. So far all is wonderful. My question is that in...
Happy Independence Day!
We really don't do much to celebrate the Fourth around here. But this year, my daughter, Randie, is going to be up at son, Bill's, this week and we had planned to go down...