With snow in the forecast, we’re going double-time

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Besides daily chores, Will and I have been sawing logs with our Hud-Son bandsaw mill, edging boards on the hybrid gasoline-driven table saw and stacking them with stickers in between to allow airflow until...

Today it’s snowing and blowing.

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So, today I thought I'd get the onions, which have been lying on an old sheet, on the floor of the enclosed back porch, ready for storage. This spring, I was so busy planting...

Q and A: Seed potatoes and garlic powder

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Seed potatoes Do you know of any resources selling True Potato Seeds (TPS)? Thanks! Anonymous Check out Tom Wagner's website, newworldcrops.com, his business is New World Seeds & Tubers. You can also find True Potato Seed through members...

The signs of spring are all around us

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Even though when you look at my front flower bed, heaped with dirty snow, ice, and some wood ashes and say "yuck," if you really look closely, you'll see little daffodils coming up. I...

We had a happy Thanksgiving and a foot of snow

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As we were under a winter blizzard warning, we had no company for Thanksgiving. But I still cooked up a storm, anyway. And finally, after years of trial and error...mostly error…found out how to...