We are harvesting a bounty of carrots

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As our nighttime temperatures are drifting into the very low twenties, I figured I'd better get at it and pull the remaining carrots and parsnips. Wow! They have gotten huge. Even our Scarlet Nantes...

I’m finally sending out seed orders

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I usually begin making out seed orders before this, but because I've been so busy, it just hasn't happened. I have to start planting peppers the second week of February so they'll be ready...

The beavers are busy and so are we

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The beavers are telling us it's going to be quite a winter! All of the beaver families around here are building very big lodges and are damming up higher and higher. And their brush, which...

What am I going to do with that husband of mine?

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We've been busy, trying to play catch-up from our late spring when all of a sudden, Will says he pulled his back, lifting the idler wheel into the crawler/loader he replaced the track tensioner...

Well, it froze!

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We'd been expecting a freeze and preparing mightily for it, but when we woke up to white on the grass, it was still sort of a shock. We did all we could, covering the...