Fall is here for sure
Our temperatures are starting to drop and our fall rains are kicking in periodically. It was supposed to rain today, so I set out harvesting a trailer load of gourds, fancy squash, and pumpkins...
The clutch went out on our new big Oliver tractor
Yesterday Will was hauling manure out onto our new pasture on the new forty acres and after seven loads, the clutch started acting up. Will just got it back up to the house when...
Another busy weekend for us
Saturday, we held our first Tomato Tasting Festival at the Orr Center, up in Orr, Minnesota. Friday, we picked and labeled more than 40 different varieties of tomato. Some were barely getting ripe so...
Weeds, weeds, and more weeds
Any of you who think we have a "perfect" bunch of huge gardens, let me correct your guess. Oh, sure, our main garden, which has been around for many years, is weed free and...
I’m five flats into planting squash seeds
Despite being busy with the typical it's-really-spring outside tasks like cleaning out flower beds, getting the six gardens ready to till and manure, mowing the lawn for the first time and getting Ava's pony...