Homesteading with Jackie Clay

This sunny, warm day makes us think spring is almost here

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Drew and Will are hard at work, putting up Drew's wood stove, double wall pipe. They put three sections together, as it kind of...

Some moderate weather lets us get lots done

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Yep, when it's -25 degrees F, you don't want to spend a lot of time outside. There are plenty of other small work you...

The sun’s out and it’s warming up

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We are so tickled to have quite a bit of sun lately. I can't praise our new lithium-ion batteries enough. We replaced our old...

Grandson Drew is up from St. Paul

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He brought a load of his things up to the house David built. David and his family bought a house in Chisholm, a town...

I’ve started plotting out our gardens for this year

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Before the plotting, I'm still busy seeding out our squash, especially our favorite, Hopi Pale Grey. Will's whining for pumpkin pie made from it,...

Wow, today it warmed up to 1 degree above zero!

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I drove to the post office to mail seeds this morning after chores, figuring I'd make a trip to the 25-mile-away town of Virginia...

We’re preparing for a nasty stretch of weather

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Right now, it's -23 and blowing snow sideways. It isn't like it was unexpected as they were forecasting arctic cold for nearly a week...

I’m just starting to get over my cold — in the cold

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Hey, it's January in Northern Minnesota, and it's cold outside. We just had a few inches of blowing snow. So, Will finally went out...

We’ve been filling many seed orders

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We wait all fall and a lot of the winter until our new seed catalog comes out in anticipation of filling lots of seed...

Did you ever have “one of those days?”

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We did, today! Will had made an appointment to get our car in for front brakes on Wednesday. His grandson, Drew, who had wanted...