We barely missed a tornado and hail last night
We were pretty nervous last night when we received a tornado warning. One tornado was spotted on the ground to the northwest of us and another picked up on radar out of a severe...
Q and A: canning sausage and three sisters planting
Canning sausage
Can sausage be canned like ground beef? No one here likes sausage patties but do like sausage gravy and soup. Canned the same as ground beef?
Hail here shredded the corn leaves and put...
Q and A: Hopi Pale Grey squash, canning corn, and canning bones
Hopi Pale Grey squash
Not a question... planted the Hopi squash I bought from you. OMG! The plants are about 20' wide. In fact, all my squash are huge this year. (With a little...
Mittens not only kills mice and rabbits, but weasels too
Our little half-pint kitty, Mittens, has turned out to be a very efficient homestead varmint catcher. She's caught hundreds of mice, voles and shrews, several full-sized rabbits and lately, she's caught three weasels! Now...
The peppers are up
Although we had temps of -2 last night, we are excited that our first pepper seedlings are up and looking great. We start them in peat pellets, soaked in hot water to puff them...