Finally, after a week of cold rain, the sun comes out
We have had a summer with no summer. A friend I talked to today said yesterday it was 33 degrees early in the morning! And we've had highs of 50 for a week. Even...
It’s sunny and warm!
Finally, our cold snap has broken. I'm running around outside in a T-shirt. Hooray! I have to laugh at our wild turkey hen. At first she was terribly shy, running off when I got...
Why bother canning so much?
I get this question a lot. After all, on a good year I'll can up dozens and dozens of jars of a good crop that's had a great growing year. Sweet corn, for instance....
Another busy weekend for us
Saturday, we held our first Tomato Tasting Festival at the Orr Center, up in Orr, Minnesota. Friday, we picked and labeled more than 40 different varieties of tomato. Some were barely getting ripe so...
Indian summer is here
After very cold temperatures -- 20 degrees at night and a HIGH of 42 degrees -- the weather's warming up to a pretty Indian summer. It's still cold at night, down to the twenties,...