We’re taking applications for a summer apprentice
Since our seed business has grown by leaps and bounds … as has our homestead, we've decided we could use some help this spring, summer, and fall and am offering an apprenticeship to a...
Hot, hot, and hotter
Okay, I'll admit it's not really that hot, compared to the heat in the South. But for Northern Minnesota, it's been hot and muggy at times. Luckily, the garden loves it and is doing...
Finally the weather is warming up!
But we still have tons of snow on the ground -- several feet! And mud and water running everywhere. Will's been working on the rock wall behind the living room stove every day, knowing...
Q and A: jar quantity and size, good wood cookstove, and off-grid water
Jar quantity and size
I purchased your book Growing and Canning Your Own Food. Good book but I can't find where in the recipes for high acid food is the jar size and quantity of...
The first batches of tomatoes are in
I spent two days planting dozens of varieties of tomatoes in peat pellets. This year, because of our little seed business (which has been very encouraging), we are going to plant more than 30...