I’m growing webbed feet!

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And we thought we'd had our fill of rain. Ha ha. I'm glad we planted like crazy before this last rain. In a little more than 24 hours, we got seven inches of pouring...

Q and A: canning sausage and three sisters planting

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Canning sausage Can sausage be canned like ground beef? No one here likes sausage patties but do like sausage gravy and soup. Canned the same as ground beef? Hail here shredded the corn leaves and put...

We’re making hay while the sun shines

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After such a rainy early summer, it has finally dried up. It's supposed to be sunny for a whole week so we're making hay like crazy. Will baled up two small fields with the...

Will and Christian got the tomatoes planted

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Last week, Will and Christian got all 52 tomatoes planted. Our big Bourbon Red tom turkey went down to "help." We trained Spencer not to go in the garden but the turkey's not so...

We may be in northern Minnesota, but we’ve already got tomatoes on the vine!

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Okay, okay, so the plants are in containers. I cannot tell a lie. When it was time to transplant the tomatoes and peppers this spring I planted a dozen in large pots. So while...