With this unseasonably warm weather, we’re getting a lot done
Usually at this time of the year, we have feet of snow still on the ground, plus huge snowplow mounds on the edges of the front yard and flower beds next to the driveway....
Q and A: Low-care gardening, grinding flour, and using oat groats
Low-care gardening
I just picked up some land this past summer in St. Louis County, Minnesota, which I think is your area. I can't make it up there very often, but my goal is to...
The pin cherries are ripe; jelly tonight!
Once again, I've been racing the cedar waxwings to the beautiful crop of wild pin cherries on the edges of our driveway. It's hard to be mad at those gorgeous masked birds, even when...
Rain, rain, rain, rain
Yep, we've had a rainy week! Cold and windy with rain. Not fun.
Will's working on building us a tub-style chicken plucker that I've dubbed Will's Chicken Tornado, built out of scraps of this and...
We’re getting ready for winter
Ok, so spring hasn't really arrived and we're thinking of preparing for winter? Are we nuts? Nope. We just know it's coming, and we know how busy summer and fall are around here. Yesterday,...