With a tractor to help, our compost pile gets serious!
From a modest compost pile a few feet high and about 10 feet in diameter, we now have a compost pile thirty feet long and about five feet high...thanks to our wonderful mule, Domino,...
We’re enjoying our spell of sunny, warm weather
Nice weather makes everything go faster and nicer on the homestead, especially this time of the year when we're running around like chickens with their heads cut off. There's so much to do before...
After a night of 20° F, now we are having Indian Summer
It always seems to happen that way; we work, covering everything we can with blankets, tarps, and whatever we can find. That buys us a few days. But then — like a couple of...
Our homestead has grown another 40 acres
The forty acres adjacent to ours (down what we call the Wolf Road, an old lumbering trail off our driveway) was for sale by the Potlatch Timber Company. And, as David needed a place...
Q and A: dishwashing soap, sewing machine cabinet, seminar, and carrot seeds
Dishwashing soap, Good turkey breed, and housing ducks
Do you have a recipe for homemade hand dishwashing soap? I use my soap scrapes to make laundry soap, but haven't had any luck for dishes. In...