With a tractor to help, our compost pile gets serious!
From a modest compost pile a few feet high and about 10 feet in diameter, we now have a compost pile thirty feet long and about five feet high...thanks to our wonderful mule, Domino,...
Finally, the rain has stopped … Temporarily
While the gardens were still pretty wet from the torrential rain we experienced last week, I was able to get all of our pepper plants into the ground. Will followed, mulching first with rotted...
Q and A: how long to wait for foods to pickle and preparing the...
How long to wait for foods to pickle
My wife canned some Dilly Beans last night for the first time. She was wondering how long they need to sit in the jar till they are...
Our first asparagus just got canned
While Will has been very busy spreading manure in our Wolf Garden, where he's close to finishing, I've been canning up our first batch of asparagus. From that picking, I ended up with 11...
What a summer! I have to have my gallbladder out and Will went to...
We've had more than 12 inches of rain in the last two weeks. Hey, it's homesteading, right? But it didn't help that I found out that I need gallbladder surgery, then after two attacks...