Tomorrow it will be -20 but today it’s spring!
Okay I'll admit I got a little giddy because my liver function tests were hugely improved and I won't have to have surgery! But really, it's just time to start the garden. Kind of. ...
Our mule learns to load in a trailer…the easy way
When I bought our weanling mule, Domino, she was as wild as a deer. She'd never been touched by human hands. Thus, she was pretty skittery. I worked with her all last winter and...
So far we’ve had a great fruit harvest
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 been especially thrilled with our Hansen's Bush Cherries. The fruit...
We’re finally done haying
Will baled up the hay he cut down on our steer pasture below the goat pasture. And out of that used-to-be-swampy, brushy patch of ground, we got 50 square bales of beautiful birdsfoot trefoil...
Back from the Denver Self Reliance Expo and back to work
I had a great time at the Expo, meeting both old Backwoods Home family and new subscribers. And I got a chance to visit with Don and Nancy Childers (the wonderful BHM artist and...