When everything goes wrong, bake a pie
Yesterday, Will was clearing an old pile of rotted logging debris out in the brush, up by the mobile home for a farm implement/assorted stuff parking area. We wanted it out of sight as...
It may be mid winter, but it’s garden planning time here!
You may think I'm nuts, but I'm planning my next gardens right now, at -14 degrees, with a foot of snow on the ground. As it's cool in our greenhouse, I have to start...
With a tractor to help, our compost pile gets serious!
From a modest compost pile a few feet high and about 10 feet in diameter, we now have a compost pile thirty feet long and about five feet high...thanks to our wonderful mule, Domino,...
Q and A: getting a steer ready to butcher, storing ketchup, hulless seeds
Getting a steer ready to butcher
We are raising our first grass-fed steer. It is a White Face Hereford. We fed it pasture all last summer and hay thru the winter months since there is...
Q and A: Planting beans late, Canning meat, and Canning vegetable soup
Planting beans late
I have some room in my garden due to harvesting my beets. I'd like to plant dry beans; jacob's cattle, etc. It is July 21 here in Central Missouri and I'd like...