We harvested our first cherry!
Okay, so there are only six cherries on the Meteor cherry tree! But they're ripening and it's our first harvest from this young tree,...
Like everyone we’re trying to get ready for Christmas on our homestead
Like most homesteaders we know, we struggle with cash this time of the year. Grain prices have been horrible. Hay, which we buy from...
Ah! Evening and the work’s all done… (well kind of…)
Even though our killing frost happened a couple of weeks ago, I'm still busy canning. Some days, it's a bit too busy. For instance,...
Our weather is like a roller coaster
One day it's 58 degrees and sunny and the next it's 8 degrees and cloudy with snow and wind. It's hard to plan, for...
Harvest continues and we attack new projects
We've dug our second row of five rows of potatoes, yielding 50 pounds of big fat russet potatoes. Watching those nice clean potatoes roll...