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...
We’ve been spending a lot of time keeping everyone warm
Under the spell of the Polar Vortex, we've experienced temperatures of -40° F every night with highs often reaching, perhaps -13°. Today was a heat wave! It only got to 40 below last night...
It’s still hot and dry at the homestead
We've been planting like crazy every single day, from morning until dark. I got in dozens of 100-foot rows of beans, both pole and bush, quite a few rows of squash, about a half-acre...
Our calves did so well last year that we’ve bought two more
We raised four steer calves last summer/fall, and they are now very BIG guys! Will just measured them with a weight tape (it's a tape measure that has cattle weights, along with inches marked...
We’ve got beautiful wild orchids in bloom
We have a "secret" spot along the woods where Showy Lady's Slipper orchids bloom, the state flower of Minnesota. And they are just now starting to bloom in force. There are dozens and dozens...