Q and A: fertilizing fruit trees, canning peach juice, growing Bill Bean tomatoes, and...
Fertilizing fruit trees
We moved to a new homestead in Alabama this January. It is in Zone 8. I've planted peach, plum, apple, and pear...
With snow in the forecast, we’re going double-time
Besides daily chores, Will and I have been sawing logs with our Hud-Son bandsaw mill, edging boards on the hybrid gasoline-driven table saw and...
Q and A: insects eating ground cherry leaves, Stanley plums, and butchering chickens
Insects eating ground cherry leaves
What is eating my Ground Cherry leaves? I planted a few ground cherries this year after reading some of...
We are harvesting a bounty of carrots
As our nighttime temperatures are drifting into the very low twenties, I figured I'd better get at it and pull the remaining carrots and...
Our very first homestead seminar was a huge success!
Although we had been having inches of rain, God smiled on us and we had two days of nice weather for our homesteading seminar....