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...

Sometimes it’s time to quit

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Well, not quit, quit, but hang 'er up for awhile to regroup.  Let me explain.  Yesterday afternoon was a gorgeous fall day.  The...

We got hit with another major snowstorm

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We spent all day yesterday shoveling out. Will plowed the drive with the plow truck and I used the snowblower to clear paths to...

So far we’ve had a great fruit harvest

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Besides harvesting many wild pin cherries and chokecherries, the wild plums are coming on like mad. Not to mention our own tame fruit. We've...

Q and A: pressure canning and canning pickled asparagus

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Pressure canning I was canning the other day in my pressure canner and after the processing time was done and the pressure had dropped...