Due to the cold spring, we’re behind in planting

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Behind, but daily getting more planted. We now have all of our tomatoes in the ground! Yea! Not all of them are mulched, staked, and caged, however. But we're slowly getting there — while...

Do you believe in prayer? We sure do.

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Yesterday we were doing cow chores. I got the gates for Will to haul round bales to the cows. Then I went out through the very mucky, rained on mud/manure and chased the mule...

Great weekend — got a lot done

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We had a little rain on Saturday, but not much. So this weekend we got a lot done. Will and Krystal moved the big hoop house off of the garden so he could till...

Our beavers say it’s going to be a dry year

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They've built up their dam extra high this spring. And as we haven't had any rain in two weeks, I'm beginning to see why. Using this dry spell, Will spread a good layer of...

Holy Cow! It’s not supposed to be in the nineties in northern Minnesota

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For the second week now, we're experiencing a terrific (for us!) heat wave with steady temperatures in the nineties every day. What makes it so hard for us is that we're in our frantic...