It always feels great to fill up those empty spots in the pantry

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I've been canning carrots like mad and boy, are they ever nice this year. They're plenty sweet, crisp, and have few lumps, bumps or extra arms and legs. I'm in a groove now. First...

Harvest time is a busy time on our homestead

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It seems that everything is coming ripe at the same time this year. Add our seed business, requiring hundreds of varieties of seeds which need harvesting and drying, and then the canning that goes...

We have a milk thief!

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Okay, he's cute and snow white. He's our milk cow Lace's newest baby (a little steer calf, Snowflake.). At first, we were getting about eight gallons of milk a day. Then seven, then six....

Oh happy day!

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A friend of ours called last night saying someone he knew had a big lot of new, unused 300 + watt solar panels to sell cheap. He was buying three for himself and our...

The tulips are up!

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More signs of spring up north.  Yesterday I woke up to a musical sound.  Wolves?  Nooooo...  It sounds like geese.  It IS geese!  I threw open the window and the air was filled with...