It’s cloudy, but the rain stopped

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Thank God! It's so much nicer to bring in a bounteous harvest when we're not wading through wet weeds (yep, we've got 'em) and leaves. I've been busy canning more sweet corn and another...

The rain came

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It's been so dry lately, with storms going north and south of us regularly. Where friend, Dara, several miles north of us got an inch, we didn't get a sprinkle. But, yesterday, it rained...

The good new is that I’m canning venison; the bad news is that David’s...

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I'm once again canning up a deer that my son, Bill, donated. It's lucky he did, too, as we didn't have much luck this year hunting. I had a doe tag but won't shoot...

Q and A: Seed potatoes and garlic powder

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Seed potatoes Do you know of any resources selling True Potato Seeds (TPS)? Thanks! Anonymous Check out Tom Wagner's website, newworldcrops.com, his business is New World Seeds & Tubers. You can also find True Potato Seed through members...

Sorry to have missed blogging but this homestead got real busy!

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Wow, what a week. First off, our homesteading apprentice, Christian, up and left. You can take the boy out of the city but not the city out of the boy. Homesteading just wasn't his...