Even though it was small, our seminar was a great success
This fall we only had one person attend our canning/homesteading seminar. But I'm sure Erin had fun and learned a lot. And being the only person, she got our undivided personal attention. We canned...
Q and A: preserving figs and blossom end rot on tomatoes
Preserving figs
We have so many figs this year. I have canned figs, made fig jam, preserves, conserve, and strawberry fig jam. I am going to do some raspberry fig jam. Maybe you have something...
I’ll swear Will and I are growing webs between our toes
We've only had one sunny (kind of) day in a week. It's weather for ducks and geese. This makes getting anything done around here a nasty job — squish, squish, squish. We were thrilled...
We are enjoying the cool day
After a summer with temperatures in the high 80s and 90s, it was such a relief to have a nice cool, windy day today. Our friend, Heather, came over and picked some zucchinis we...
Moose has surgery
Remember our two donkeys, Beauty and Moose? Moose was a jack, or an entire male donkey. We do not plan on breeding donkeys and a jack can become a problem when you have other...