What a week!
We've been busy harvesting tomatoes and Will has been also busy trying to get the last fields of hay baled up, which he was unable to get to sooner, due to all the rain...
Q and A: crossbreeding corn, building soil, canning cake, and 20 most important homesteading...
Crossbreeding corn
This year I am going to try and crossbreed two different varieties of corn and I know nothing about de-tasseling. One variety (Painted Mountain) has a shorter length of growing time (75-80 days),...
We got a lot done this past week
Just as soon as Will finished the siding on our storage barn, we got it stained. Then Will stained the wood rack he'd built next to the south wall of the storage barn. He...
Hey, it’s not all work and no play
Yesterday, we drove down to Bill and Kelly's for our granddaughter Ava's fourth birthday party. We had been a little nervous as they were calling for a quarter of an inch of ice from...
Why start it? It’s too much work. You’ll never get it done!
You know, I've heard that all my life. Well meaning (I guess, I hope!) people seem all too happy to crush someone's dreams with those words. I remember when my oldest son, Bill, was...