With our unseasonable warm weather coming to an end soon, we’re hurrying
Will is busy cutting and hauling truckload after truckload of firewood to the woodshed just about every hour of daylight. Me? I've been rearranging my food storage after writing an article on that subject....
Another “interesting” summer!
What a way to start summer, and this blog!
As you may have read in Dave’s blog, we had a very close call with my son, David, 16, the 3rd of July. What started...
A new garden joins our homestead
On the east side of our house, beyond where we will be building the new entryway/laundry room/green room, there was a humpy bumpy, rocky area. Ugly! There were stumps, logs and other...
We’ve really been rushing around lately
The garden, which has been dinking around for weeks with nothing ripening, IS ripening all of a sudden. We've got quite a few ripe tomatoes now, chiefly our favorite, Moravsky Div, and Mia's Italian...
I’ve been canning…and shooting photos for the new book
While all the major writing has been done on the new Backwoods Home book on growing and canning your own food, I still had two photo shoots to do, showing the steps of both...