We’ve had snow and freezing, but harvest continues

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Today I finished up the last minute harvest in our garden. It was windy, wintery, and raw, but I pulled two five-gallon buckets of...

Q and A: storing honey and canning lids

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Storing honey I have quite a few plastic bottles of honey. They are starting to become hard. I heated them up in a pan of...

In between seeding out squash seeds, I’m canning venison

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We've been really busy, seeding out the melons and squash in the greenhouse as we're heating it with propane, and it really isn't sealed...

The goat barn is painted (before winter!) and beauty is expecting

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I finally finished painting the goat barn/chicken coop. And boy does it look nice! You've got to remember what it used to look like,...

Spring is sort of coming and going

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One day it's 65 degrees, and the next it's snowing! But that's springtime in northern Minnesota. On the warm days, Will's been removing the...