Sorry to have missed blogging but this homestead got real busy!
Wow, what a week. First off, our homesteading apprentice, Christian, up and left. You can take the boy out of the city but not the city out of the boy. Homesteading just wasn't his...
We got farm gas in our new (old) tank
Yesterday, the big fuel truck came out to deliver 150 gallons of bulk fuel to our new fuel tank. Will had installed a hose, filter, and nozzle so we were ready. By buying bulk...
So far, everything’s coming along great
Our health has been wonderful and so has the weather. Will's been working at getting our gardens mulched and we've been weeding ahead of the mulching. But with four big gardens, it's sometimes a...
The snow’s going fast and we’re hurrying to haul barn logs and fence posts
We will be starting our big barn this spring and Will needed 90 12-foot and 16-foot logs to use as support beams for the haymow floor. We didn't have that many large trees on...
Q and A: Planting raspberries, corn seeds, and potato soup recipe
Planting raspberries
Can black raspberries and red raspberries be planted close and not cross? I want to plant Black berries and black and red raspberries in my north pasture this spring but want to have...