It’s finally drying out
After all the rain, making the fields and garden soppy, it finally quit pouring. Yesterday, Will and Krystal went out to the new corn/pumpkin field and hand planted several trial varieties of corn. If...
Q and A: rejected kid goat and gypsum for the garden
Rejected kid goat
I have 2 Fainting Goats who kidded on the same day (Jan. 8). They both were first time mothers and both had twins. The first to kid accepted both, the second to...
Yesterday we went from storing 300 gallons of water to 600!!
Our friend Tom stopped by yesterday with a bag full of plumbing fittings and proceeded to hook our new water storage tank up, in series, to our old tank. But first, I dumped a...
It’s hard to weed when it pours every ten minutes
Will and I have been trying hard to get ahead of the weeds everywhere. Some days, we make great progress. Yesterday, he ran the tiller between corn and bean rows in the Wolf Garden...
Oh my goodness! Where are the days going?
We've been hitting the gardens hard every single day now that the weather's changed into warm and dry. We are planting about 76 tomatoes every day, plus doing some corn, squash, and assorted other...