We finally got a good rain

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On Friday, I took our apprentice, Ashley, over to the Vince Shute Bear Sanctuary near Orr, Minnesota She'd never seen black bears in the...

With our unseasonable warm weather coming to an end soon, we’re hurrying

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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...

We got a foot of blowing snow, but it has passed

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Today, the sun is out brightly and the big snowstorm is history. Will waited until the snow had stopped as it does little good...

We’ve really been rushing around lately

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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...

I just seeded out some gorgeous Glass Gem popcorn

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We've been busy, trying to get crates of corn and beans off the unheated, enclosed back porch and greenhouse, which is heated (expensively). While...