Q and A: Wood burners, Peach preserves, Dry beans, and Pumpkin puree
Wood burners
Have you used a wood burner with a jetstove.com chimney? They are supposed to be smokeless and put out twice the heat. I really like the concept of not letting all my heat...
We enjoyed a sunny Mother’s Day
On Mother's Day it's become a family tradition, for my son, Bill, and his family to meet us at Byrns Greenhouse out in the country, near Zim, for our annual grab'n git festival. (That's...
Nice weather equals busy us
We've finally got nice spring weather with temperatures in the sixties and even seventies. So, guess who's working until dark every night? We're behind as spring came late for us. We even had a...
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...
Every day is a harvest day now
As fall approaches, our crops are ripening in earnest. The blackbirds are again attacking our corn crops, most of all, the Mandan Lavender Parching corn. I'm picking the corn as soon as it is...