We’re already getting ready for next winter
While I was busy inside wrapping Christmas packages, writing Christmas cards, baking goodies, and making Holiday fudge, Will was busy down in the woods. We had a lot of blow-down of fir and birch...
What a whirlwind weekend!
I'm sure you've all had those days, but our Saturday was a humdinger. We'd been hard at work all day. Will was working on our new pasture fence and I was harvesting beans and...
Q and A: making corn meal and growing Hopi Pale Grey Squash
Making corn meal
My question is regarding homemade corn meal. We have a hand crank corn sheller and it works great. We also have a grist mill, and it makes corn meal just fine. The...
After a 20-degree freeze, we’re really pushing to get things done
We hauled in boxes and crates of tomatoes. Then, yesterday, our friend Sherri came over to help pick the sweet corn. As the birds were starting to get into the Seneca Sunrise we save...
Whew! We’re done haying … again
Will helped out our neighbor, cutting a hayfield which hadn't been cut for two years. It was matted with dead grass which made cutting it tough. But he got it done, then baled it...