With less frequent rains and hot weather, we’re on the upswing
I'll swear we were having so much rain I felt like my toes were growing webs! Yuck. And rain makes tons of mosquitoes appear too. But lately, we have had a little rain, but...
While its snowing, David and Will work inside
For a shop project, David is making a slide-in-trailer receiver cargo rack. At school, he cut and assembled the rack. But tonight he brought it home and he and Will measured and drilled holes...
Q and A: storing freshly ground wheat, glass chimneys for kerosene lamps, and canning...
Storing freshly-ground wheat
I have been making biscuit mix and pancake mix with organic unbleached flour, but am almost out of what we had stored and will now switch to our Wheat Berries and grind...
Q and A: traumatized hens and raising poultry and pigs
Traumatized hens
Our Easter egg chickens were traumatized about 2 months ago when stray dogs attacked the free ranging flock and killed 3 hens. They had just started to lay normal sized eggs so they...