With planting about done (is it ever?) we’re mulching our plants

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With our previous drought, we began mulching both to save on weeding and to conserve much-needed moisture as several of our gardens have limited...

This sunny, warm day makes us think spring is almost here

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Drew and Will are hard at work, putting up Drew's wood stove, double wall pipe. They put three sections together, as it kind of...

So much food!

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We're simply stunned seeing how much food we have produced this year! I've been canning like mad as well as extracting seed for our...

Q and A: sweet potatoes and chicken feed

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Sweet potatoes I left some sweet potatoes in the garden, thinking since they were under ground, I could just harvest them as I needed them,...

Finally, I’m canning carrots

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After three days of thinking "tomorrow I'll get to can carrots," it's finally happening. Yesterday I started out shelling various varieties of corn and...