Death and new life
On our homestead, just like any other homestead, we have death as well as new life. After years of breeding goats, this spring we finally got a beautiful doeling from our best doe that...
We all got busy today
Our friends, Dara and Sherri, came today to help out. While Dara was busy packaging tomato seeds, I helped Sherri get the last names on the mailing list for our 2024 Seed Treasures catalog...
We’re making good use of a beautiful week
Our weather turned into a glorious Indian summer. Temperatures are in the high sixties and dry. Will made use of it by cutting the new seeding down below the goat pasture. Three years ago,...
Q and A: limescale in canner and raccoons in the corn patch
Limescale in canner
I made your V-8 type juice yesterday and it smelled heavenly! However, I had to use a large kettle that I sometimes use for waterbathing to heat all the juice in to...
Who said animals are dumb?
We had been having problems with deer getting into our Sand and Central gardens. Half was fenced with 6-foot welded wire where the Central garden side only had stock panels and a string of...