Due to the cold spring, we’re behind in planting
Behind, but daily getting more planted. We now have all of our tomatoes in the ground! Yea! Not all of them are mulched, staked, and caged, however. But we're slowly getting there — while...
We’ve finally got nearly everything harvested and inside
Whew! It's been freezing nearly every night so all the squash and pumpkins had to come inside. This year, we've put them all in the house. (Last year the cows got out and ate...
I hope you have a great fourth of July!
We did, although the days leading up to it were pretty busy. On Monday, Will and I traveled to Bagley, Minnesota, to visit Jim and Bernis at their farm, Honeyberry USA. They raise and...
Q and A: processing spaghetti sauce with olive oil, turnips and rutabagas, and seed...
Processing spaghetti sauce with olive oil
I canned many new recipes from your book since I had an awesome garden this year. In your recipe for salsa, thickened with tomato paste I used 2 -...
Spring is around the corner, even if it is -12 degrees
Yesterday I planted our very first peppers! Now they're on shelves next to the wood stove as they germinate in only a few days at 75-85 degrees, but up to two weeks at 60...