We’ve had snow and freezing, but harvest continues
Today I finished up the last minute harvest in our garden. It was windy, wintery, and raw, but I pulled two five-gallon buckets of rutabagas and another one of carrots. That's it. I'm done....
Q and A: canning beans, transplanting fruit trees, and canning with kids
Canning beans
I decided to can up several kinds of beans to save heat in the kitchen during the summer. They all look good but they are not juicy like store bought ones. Did I...
I canned up the first batch of asparagus yesterday
I'd planned on canning asparagus for a couple of days then got busy, bringing in all the flats of plants off of the back deck. The forecast for the night was a frost warning...
We got a bit of warmer weather
And Will got nearly all the big sheets of metal barn roofing on. We finished all but the very last big sheet last night. Luckily his cordless driver has a light! Today it's in...
The harvest continues; this time it’s wild plums
This time of year, we're constantly busy harvesting and putting up not only the garden produce but our wild crops as well. Luckily we have many on our homestead and this year we've been...