Another busy weekend for us
Saturday, we held our first Tomato Tasting Festival at the Orr Center, up in Orr, Minnesota. Friday, we picked and labeled more than 40 different varieties of tomato. Some were barely getting ripe so...
Q and A: what to grow in a shady area and storing canned goods...
What to grow in a shady area
Our homestead is very small, and in a biggish city, Youngstown, OH. We bought a fixer-upper here about a year ago. The back yard is very small, and...
We had a very nice Easter visit with our family
Well, at least those who could come. Sons, Bill and his family and David and his family, joined us for Easter dinner. We not only sat down to a table full of good food...
Our tilling has started
Because we currently have three tractors torn apart, waiting for cash to buy parts, we haven't been able to get started tilling the gardens as early as we'd like. So when I got home...
All on the homestead is not about work
This time of the year is the beginning of serious food preservation for me. Unfortunately, a lot of folks get the mistaken idea that I just work, work, work. Well, yes and no. Of...