Q and A: excess potatoes, problem with chickens, and cheese from store-bought milk
Excess potatoes
My dad just received 250 lbs of free potatoes. We have given a lot of them to family and friends but still have way too many. Is there any way to freeze them...
No, aliens didn’t abduct Will and me
I'm so sorry to have worried everyone by missing my two blogs last week. You see, Will's daughter, who lives in central Illinois, was in a car accident leaving her unable to work on...
It may be Christmas, but I’m drooling over seed catalogs already
This year, I've been getting seed catalogs for nearly a month now. So Will and I have been discussing different varieties that we'd like to try. We've already ordered 9 new apple trees, a...
We’ve already put some of our windfall plywood to use
Yesterday I went town to get to two bearings I'd ordered for the wind charger. While I was gone, Will and David unloaded, by hand, the three piles of free plywood Will had gotten...
It’s been hot, hot, hot — even here in northern Minnesota
Will has the fence around the new forty acres done to the point that the horses can be turned in, with four wires on three sides and two wires on the farthest side. It's...