The grasshoppers are gone

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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...

The heavy rains flooded our small town of Cook

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Those 7 to 10-inch pouring rains made things around here sloppy but in the small town of Cook, "our" town of 600, things took...

Blueberries are ripe!

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I've been watching the wild blueberries since spring. Last year, after suffering that cold winter with drought and no snow cover, many of the...

QandA: Non-electric grain mill, Canning corned beef, and Sweet potatoes

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Non-electric grain mill In your opinion, what is the best non-electric grain mill? Right now I use an electric one to grind my wheat. I...

Finally, I’m canning carrots

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After three days of thinking "tomorrow I'll get to can carrots," it's finally happening. Yesterday I started out shelling various varieties of corn and...