Will wins the beaver war!
After weeks of persistence, and tearing out several inches of the beaver dam at least twice a day, and tearing out several inches of re-built dam, Will has gotten the water level in the...
We’re loving the squash/pumpkin crop this year
As it was a warm summer with plenty of rain, our pumpkins and squash did wonderfully well. So did the squash and pumpkins that our friend, Dara, grew. She helps us grow out different...
Harvest time is a busy time on our homestead
It seems that everything is coming ripe at the same time this year. Add our seed business, requiring hundreds of varieties of seeds which need harvesting and drying, and then the canning that goes...
Spring has sprung
We are so thrilled to have daily temperatures in the high fifties and even low sixties lately. And because of that, we've been getting a lot done besides the annual spring pick-up and clean-up...
Sorry to be so late blogging!
We've been fighting against frost, which has been threatening nearly every day. We've been picking, husking corn, pulling in beans, and, lately, covering rare crops as we were under a frost advisory. Yesterday, our...