Q and A: baby Lima beans not producing and weather-predicting beavers
Baby Lima beans not producing
Have you ever had a problem with baby limas (we call them butterbeans here in Virginia) not producing pods? I have great vines but no pods at all. This is...
It’s rainy, it’s cold, but it isn’t snowing
Our weather's getting progressively nastier so I'm finding plenty to do inside, despite all we have to do outside. Yesterday was relatively decent but windy so Will (with his bad cold) and I split...
Q and A: Next seminar and fermented pickles
Next seminar
My wife Geri loves your columns, as do I. And she reads BHM cover to cover every issue. We recently purchased a homestead in SW Michigan. I'm wondering how to get her "signed...
Rain, rain, rain, rain
Yep, we've had a rainy week! Cold and windy with rain. Not fun.
Will's working on building us a tub-style chicken plucker that I've dubbed Will's Chicken Tornado, built out of scraps of this and...
What a summer! I have to have my gallbladder out and Will went to...
We've had more than 12 inches of rain in the last two weeks. Hey, it's homesteading, right? But it didn't help that I found out that I need gallbladder surgery, then after two attacks...