We’re making good use of sunny and sixty!
While we don't let grass grow under our feet, the past two days has been extra busy as our weather went from way below normal and snow to sixty with sunshine. I can just...
It’s still hot and dry at the homestead
We've been planting like crazy every single day, from morning until dark. I got in dozens of 100-foot rows of beans, both pole and bush, quite a few rows of squash, about a half-acre...
Will and Christian got the tomatoes planted
Last week, Will and Christian got all 52 tomatoes planted. Our big Bourbon Red tom turkey went down to "help." We trained Spencer not to go in the garden but the turkey's not so...
The summer with no summer
We are approaching the end of one of the coldest summers in recent Minnesota history. Friends who have lived here for 40 years cannot remember such a cold summer. Nighttime temperatures have struggled to...
Finally! Rain! But a tornado missed us by several miles…
We finally got two nice rains. One was only about a tenth of an inch but the next was nearly an inch, and with our gardens, that's a huge help. We did have a...