One of the nine baby turkeys went missing!

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Will went out to do chores this morning and counted baby turkeys. There were only eight! We've been seeing mama fox and her half-grown...

Q and A: Compost freezing, Tattler lids, and dirty windows

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Compost freezing We are in Colorado near the mountains. We have many bags of excess compost/steer manure from when we purchased and had trees planted...

Q and A: Southern blight and Elderberry pie

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Southern blight I just wanted to give you an update on the tomato plants that I grew from your seeds. All of them germinated and...

Look how Will’s raised beds make a difference!

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While he was here, my sweetie made us five nice raised beds in our new house garden. Into each one, he dumped at least...

Three feet of snow, -5 F, and I’m starting to plant

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Now that may sound totally crazy (especially when our last spring frost date is around June 12th or so. But there are a few...