I’m finally canning corn
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?
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
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
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
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,...