A new garden joins our homestead

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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...

Transplanting tomato plants, hauling wood

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The last few days have been busy ones.  I've been transplanting dozens and dozens of tiny tomato plants into styrofoam cups and deep six...

Fall means winter’s coming

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If you think we've been busy before, you should see us now! We're expecting snow in about three weeks. Snow that'll stay all winter...

Ah! Evening and the work’s all done… (well kind of…)

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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,...