Q and A: garden mulching, watering, and using hoop houses
I see in the summer pics of your garden, you use mulch. Looks like hay, and doesn't look really thick like the deep mulch system. Question: It looks like hay -- I worry about...
Finally! The snow’s about gone!
With temperatures in the high sixties and not freezing at night, our three feet of snow has been melting fast. And yesterday for the first time this spring, I walked in our orchard. How...
Q and A: Canning bacon grease and saving seeds
Canning Bacon Grease
I use bacon grease in frying eggs and sometimes potatoes and making cornbread. I have several jars of it in the refrigerator because my mother fries a lot of bacon and saves...
We’ve started on the second section of the equipment shed
With the first 12x24-foot section of our new storage shed fairly finished and stacked a quarter full of firewood already, we've moved on to the next and highest section. The center section will be...
Sorry to be so late blogging!
We've been fighting against frost, which has been threatening nearly every day. We've been picking, husking corn, pulling in beans, and, lately, covering rare crops as we were under a frost advisory. Yesterday, our...