With a leap of faith, we planted our second crop of potatoes on July...
And they are making potatoes! With our weird spring, our first rows of potatoes were a miserable failure; a few scattered plants. But I...
Q and A: canning beans, transplanting fruit trees, and canning with kids
Canning beans
I decided to can up several kinds of beans to save heat in the kitchen during the summer. They all look good but...
Snow’s coming … too soon
We heard the dreaded four letter word: snow! And eight inches plus is forecast. In Northern Minnesota, that means it'll probably stick all winter....
There’s snow on the ground this morning
Boy, am I ever glad we dug carrots yesterday! They were frozen in the ground so I was hesitant as to their quality. After...
Spring is officially here — we saw robins today
Will bummed me out this morning. He got up earlier than I did and saw our first robin in the tree in our backyard....