Q and A: livestock feeder and canning baked beans

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Livestock feeder We recently purchased two 4 month old heifer calves. One is a Holstein and one a Jersey/Milking shorthorn cross. We are new to this cow thing and are learning as we go. Our...

We’re beginning to get ready for Christmas

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Well, make that two Christmases. It's sort of like 12 Days of Christmas — only just two. The first will be Christmas Day when it'll just be Will, David, and me. In years past...

I hope you had a wonderful Memorial Day

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Last week, we had a dive in temperatures that really shook things up around here. Not only did we have to hustle to make sure both heaters were working in the greenhouse but the...

Still raining but I just made the best salsa

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A good friend of mine in Wyoming had gotten some sundried tomatoes from a market, from Turkey. She asked me if I thought the seeds would grow. I didn't know for sure, but she...

One of the nine baby turkeys went missing!

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Will went out to do chores this morning and counted baby turkeys. There were only eight! We've been seeing mama fox and her half-grown babies quite near the buildings, so we just assumed that...