Our tomatoes and peppers are getting ripe
With those ripening crops, I've been busy taking out seed to save for our seed business. I always take seed from the earliest and some of the best ones. I also give them a...
If you thought we were bushed before…
In spite of all the inches of rain we've been getting lately, our crops are ripening quickly. Every day I'm picking and taking the seed from many different varieties of tomatoes, from the little...
Winter’s just around the corner
We had ice on the animals' watering tanks this morning. Brrrrr.
Will's been trimming dead trees that hang over the driveway and will cause trouble this winter when we plow snow. Luckily, a lot of...
The peppers are coming up
After only five days, our peppers are popping up. Literally — they just show their "backs," then up they pop. Yesterday I took some out of the plastic so the humidity wouldn't cause them...
Well, I’m back in the saddle again
Following my knee replacement, it's taken a little longer than I'd thought to get back at normal life. The first week after surgery, I was graced with a period of intense vomiting. Turned out...