Jackie’s June Homesteading Seminar

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We're planning our spring homesteading seminar and are ready to take deposits.This seminar should be a great one, covering such topics as basic homestead building skills, using carpentry tools and chainsaws safely, getting more...

Amid our spring planting, a horrible fire destroys apartment building where David’s girlfriend lives

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We were busy erecting and planting our hoop houses, complaining how late we were getting that done this year due to my knee surgery and the goofy spring (a foot of snow on the...

Q and A: tomato sprouting and homesteader savings

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Tomato sprouting I was wondering if you ever saw a tomato that had a plant of some kind growing out of the fruit itself. I've had two of them from the garden now and am...

It was sixty degrees and sunny for Easter

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All we could think was … FINALLY! My sons, Bill (and his family) and David, were here for Easter dinner and we all ate too much. Then we sat out on our new front...

With the heat and the rain, boy, do we have bugs!

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We've never had many mosquitoes here but this year I think everyone in Minnesota is complaining about them, us included. So we're fighting back! We put up eight new birdhouses and have several families...