Is it the evil phase of the moon or something?
Wow, first we got a killing frost then as Will was finishing haying, everything broke down. And I mean EVERYTHING! Out of four tractors, three are broken and out of two round balers, both...
Our last winter calf has been born
After weeks of waiting on this and that heifer to have their calves, our last one, Lady, had hers. Of course it was -21° F that night. Luckily, when I went down to check...
Despite rain and snow, the greenhouse gets built
Our friends, Mike and Dara, came yesterday to help out. While Dara and I packaged seeds, Mike and Will set about putting the polycarbonate on the remaining side of the new greenhouse. It went...
Homesteading isn’t all peaches and cream — sometimes it’s weeds and sour milk.
Generally homesteading is a wonderfully fulfilling life. That's until you go out first thing in the dewy morning to see six cows happily munching down the last of the Seneca Sunrise sweet corn in...
Everything is big here!
Everything in the garden is big this year. Our hay crop is abundant, the peppers in the hoop house are awesome, and the Hopi Pale Grey squash are scary. You don't even want to...