Our snow is here to stay, I’m thinking
We do our outside chores then come inside to work hard at shelling corn, winnowing away the chaff in the wind outside, then stock...
Spring’s here, the snow is gone, and we’re getting busy
As soon as the snow was gone (mostly) Will got out Old Yeller, our trusty John Deere 1010 crawler, and started in grading the...
With planting about done (is it ever?) we’re mulching our plants
With our previous drought, we began mulching both to save on weeding and to conserve much-needed moisture as several of our gardens have limited...
It’s canning time on the homestead
The vegetables in the garden were a little slow ripening this year because of the weather, but they all came on like gangbusters. Right...
Our very first homestead seminar was a huge success!
Although we had been having inches of rain, God smiled on us and we had two days of nice weather for our homesteading seminar....