Oh oh, a freeze warning
Due to the tropical storm moving northward, it sucked a cold high down from Canada unexpectedly, after we had corn, beans, squash, and melons up in the gardens. Notice, I said "gardens" as in...
Well, today’s high is -9° F
You can guess we're not doing much besides chores today. But, as spring is coming, I sat down and ordered some more fruit trees from our favorite orchard companies, Fedco Trees and St. Lawrence...
Most of our road trips involve food
I bought honeyberries and bush cherries from Honeyberry USA, in Bagley, Minnesota several years ago. (I had met Bernis and Jim Ingvaldson, the owners, at the Northern Plains Sustainable Agriculture Conference in January, held...
Snow, snow, snow
Well, at least the perennial garden plants will have plenty of snow cover this winter. We just got another five inches today. I can't lie and say I wish winter would stay for months...
Q and A: true wheat seeds and planting onions
True wheat seeds
There is a lot of talk about the wheat we all use being bad for us. Can a person get the "real" wheat seed. If so where?
Susie McMillan
Powderly, Texas
There are several companies...