Q and A: mulching with straw and canning pureed zucchini
Mulching with straw and canning pureed zucchini
Your garden looks beautiful with the straw. We did the straw for the first time this year and were not satisfied at all. We put on about 6...
Q and A: boiled cider, Hopi Pale Grey squash not producing, and larger hoop...
Boiled cider
Apple harvest time is here and I've recently discovered some great sounding doughnut recipes that call for "boiled cider" as one of the ingredients. Boiled apple cider is quite expensive to buy so...
All work and some play
We've been working hard, so Krystal and I took an evening off to drive up to the Vince Shute Bear Sancturary west of Orr, Minnesota. There were few bears around, but we were lucky...
I hope your Thanksgiving was as nice as ours
I took some real nice photos and entered them onto my computer. But, lo and behold, when I went to blog today they were GONE. All of them! Oh well, if aliens got them...
We enjoyed a sunny Mother’s Day
On Mother's Day it's become a family tradition, for my son, Bill, and his family to meet us at Byrns Greenhouse out in the country, near Zim, for our annual grab'n git festival. (That's...



