The pin cherries are ripe

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We've been watching the pin cherries on our ridge for several weeks, and finally they are ripe. The birds have been getting into them, so we decided we'd better get out and pick before...

Winter is here!

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It's been threatening to arrive so we've been super busy since I got back from my mini-vacation to Yellowstone National Park. There were still potatoes to dig, more dry beans to pull, all the...

Q and A: rendering pig fat, canning mulberries, and source for weed-free hay

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Rendering pig fat Could you give me a rough idea of how many pounds of pig fat I will need to render down in order to end up with a dozen pint jars of lard?...

We’ve been a little busy

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First off, last Thursday, we had the Cook Area Garden Club out for a look-see at our homestead. Of course, I was a little nervous...most of these people had beautiful flower beds and weed-free...

After Spring arrived, we got dumped on by a foot of snow.

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Boy, were we bummed! Just when all the grass was showing in the yard and the cows were dancing with joy, we got a winter storm warning for our area. We had two days...