There’s another homesteader in our family!

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My daughter-in-law, Kelly (Bill's wife) had a tiny, very healthy baby boy. Right in the middle of a good old Minnesota blizzard!...

Finally the weather is warming up!

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But we still have tons of snow on the ground -- several feet! And mud and water running everywhere. Will's been working on the...

Q and A: using a fermenting crock for meat and peeling Hopi Pale Gray...

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Using fermenting crock for meat My husband would like to cure some meat in my German fermenting crock. Will my crock be safe to use...

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...

Eating up all the garden mistakes

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This last few days have been sort of a blur of frenzied picking, hauling, digging, hauling and stacking garden produce in the new greenhouse,...