Just when things are going great …

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Will has been using all his spare time to push out encroaching brush in one of the neighbor's hayfields that we rent. Some of the previous folks who cut hay on the field slowly...

We finally got a Baltimore Oriole

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After weeks of waiting, we were finally rewarded by seeing a Baltimore Oriole in a birch tree off of our deck. He tried to drink from our hummingbird feeder with no results. He flew...

With spring finally here, we are keeping pretty busy

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With Old Yeller up and running, Will made ditches with the tractor and breaking plow then cleaned them up with the dozer. (I won't mention that he threw a track yesterday, and he waded...

We do plan on having a fall homestead seminar

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Due to lots of requests, Will and I have decided to do what may be (due to our age, etc.) our last seminar. It will be held August 28th, 29th, and 30th. As usual,...

Q and A: Next seminar and fermented pickles

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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...