I’m finally canning corn

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After planting our corn three times (count them; THREE), I'm finally getting some corn canned. With a hard freeze two weeks ago, which I fought hand to hand with six sprinklers running for three...

Roses in the middle of a Minnesota winter?

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Yep. You see, my son, David, got me three rose bushes for Mother's Day this year. Unfortunately, they were Zone 5 tea roses and wouldn't survive here in northern Minnesota, in Zone 3, even...

Spring’s here, the snow is gone, and we’re getting busy

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As soon as the snow was gone (mostly) Will got out Old Yeller, our trusty John Deere 1010 crawler, and started in grading the site for our new 38x48-foot barn. Luckily, with the foot...

Q and A: Turkeys fighting and Watering vs. rain

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Turkeys fighting Do you have any trouble with your turkeys fighting? Whenever I have a young tom coming along at about 6 months I have to separate him from my older tom. And then this...

Hey! Spring’s back

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After a week of back to back blizzards, the sun came out and the temperature climbed to 50 degrees today. It was SO nice. And today my son Bill and his wife,...