It may be Christmas, but I’m drooling over seed catalogs already
This year, I've been getting seed catalogs for nearly a month now. So Will and I have been discussing different varieties that we'd like to try. We've already ordered 9 new apple trees, a...
It’s barely spring and we are starting to put up next winter’s wood
All last winter, David went out to a nearby clearcut and hauled wood home. It's great wood; ash and birch, primarily. Nice hardwood! We had plenty for last winter, but we...
We have water!
When you live off grid, you need to learn to color outside the lines. Our water lines, both from our new well at the barn and our house well, froze and we were without...
Holy cow, if you thought we were busy before…
We've been really busting butt, trying to get our last crops in before the ground freezes and the snow starts to stack up. Yesterday, we got our first snow; big, fluffy white flakes that...
Our first seeds have popped up
Of course, they're the earliest petunia seeds, which I planted last week. But it's terribly exciting to see those tiny little seedlings bravely poking up, with two feet of snow, right outside of the...