The cows got into our pumpkin/corn patch
Yesterday Will was bulldozing the horse manure in the horse pasture where we feed round bales all winter up into a compost pile. He noticed that the cows seemed to be too far north...
It’s springtime crazy around here!
After waiting so long for nice weather, we're making very good use of it! We disbudded all five of our goat kids. That's one of our least favorite homestead jobs but we feel it's...
Putting up the harvest
Now that we've got most of it in, we're going full bore, putting up the harvest. I've begun digging potatoes and WOW are they nice this year! I started on the row in the...
Q and A: Canning butter, Tomatoes not setting fruit, and Water-bathed chicken stock
Canning butter
My garden has started to produce and I have been in a canning frenzy the last couple of weeks. As long as I am doing all this canning I thought I would try...
Q and A: canning carnitas and putting fish in compost
Canning carnitas
I make carnitas using the following recipe all in crock or casserole then bake or crock pot about 2 hours. Then drain, shred, reduce liquid then glaze and brown the meat. DO you...