My cherry pitter came
And just in time, too, as the birds were enjoying way too many of our pie cherries. You could just look under the trees...
Q and A: leaving rings on jars in storage, canning pinto beans, and growing...
Leaving rings on jars in storage
Our family butchered a 500+ pound hog this past weekend, and we were able to render 30+ quarts of...
We’ve got all the tomatoes out of the Wall-O-Waters and caged (staked)
We got our corn (all 49 rows of 250 feet), squash, and pumpkins, 4½ rows (250-foot) of Dakota Pearl potatoes in before the heavy...
Lots of harvesting going on now
Not only are our tomatoes going great guns so I can bring in baskets full every day, but the peppers are starting to ripen....
The grasshoppers are gone
Suddenly, as in almost overnight, our grasshopper plague has ended! I hadn't even noticed until Will mentioned it. No more clouds of grasshoppers flying...