Q and A: worms eating squash and raising meat and laying poultry together
Worms eating squash
I have some really big volunteer squash of some sort. Still waiting to see. The problem I am having is that little worms are eating into the squash while they lay on...
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...
We’re really enjoying warmer weather
Will's been out twice more, cutting and hauling that great dead black ash firewood from the edge of our big beaver pond. The snow's so deep that he has to doze a path to...
We hauled our first beef animal to the meat plant
Our "little" calves that we raised a year and a half ago now weigh a thousand pounds, plus! And they're not so "cute." One of them, a black Jersey-Holstein or Angus cross was pretty...
The first crops are coming up
My little new lettuce, spinach, radish, and onions are coming up. It's so exciting, as it's our first annual crop. We do have some walking onions up in the garden, which are great in...