We have water!
When you live off grid, you need to learn to color outside the lines. Our water lines, both from our new well at the barn and our house well, froze and we were without...
We’re sawing up those poles Will saved from clearing the new forty
It's getting cold. Tonight it's going to be down around zero. Today, however, was beautiful -- sunny and pretty. You may remember that Will carefully saved nearly all of those small trees he bulldozed...
Heirloom Seeds now available
As you all know, I have mentioned starting a small seed business. Well, we have the details worked out and are ready to start selling seeds. We will only be selling varieties of heirloom...
Homestead doings and Mom
Thank all of you for your prayers and good wishes for Mom and us too. She is doing a little better, but I had to place her in a nursing home Friday. She just...
Why bother canning so much?
I get this question a lot. After all, on a good year I'll can up dozens and dozens of jars of a good crop that's had a great growing year. Sweet corn, for instance....