Our wheat is up!

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Because of the escalating price of wheat, we desperately wanted to get in even a small patch this spring.  But where???  Our garden was...

Even though it’s going to be twenty below tonight, I’m starting peppers

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February weather in northern Minnesota can be huge swings between thawing and sunny, to blustery and sub zero. Tonight and tomorrow night, they're calling...

Even hardcore homesteaders take a day off

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So what did Will and I do? We took a drive along the edge of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness on the Echo...

Fall rains have begun

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After several nice, sunny days with temps in the high fifties and even sixty yesterday, we woke up to rain. Yuck. But we had...

I’ve got the spring cold — Yuck!

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I guess it's going around; everyone I talk to either has it or just got over it — the spring cold. Nose runs like...