Oh oh, a freeze warning
Due to the tropical storm moving northward, it sucked a cold high down from Canada unexpectedly, after we had corn, beans, squash, and melons up in the gardens. Notice, I said "gardens" as in...
Harvest is chugging right along
Will picked tons of Dragon Tongue snap beans, the third picking off that 50-foot row and I was busy for three days, canning them all up. Each day I got 28 pints! Our pantry...
The weather station is posting the F word
No, not that "F" word — frost! Tomorrow night, the temperature is diving down to a forecast of 35 degrees F. That's fine, but we usually have temperatures about 5 degrees colder than what...
We can’t stop COVID-19 but we can bring in firewood and save seeds
With all the unrest and worry around the country, it's no wonder doctors are seeing a spike in depression, countrywide. But I feel lucky; as homesteaders, Will and I have real world things to...
March winds blow
And they blew and blew yesterday and the day before! So hard, in fact, that I was having a hard time sleeping between the huge bursts of wind gusts and our wind charger's brake...