Q and A: cooling with no fridge, growing winter squash, and measuring flavored oil

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Cooling with no fridge Yesterday I arrived at our hunting trailer to prepare for a family canning bee only to discover that the fridge is...

Sorry to have missed blogging but this homestead got real busy!

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Wow, what a week. First off, our homesteading apprentice, Christian, up and left. You can take the boy out of the city but not...

Our snow is gone

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Well … mostly, that is; there still are a few lingering piles, here and there, mostly in the shade of the woods. But our...

We have a new baby

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Wednesday, our half Jersey heifer, Surprise, had her baby -- a pretty heifer we are calling Fern because she's just the color of dead...

There’s snow on the ground this morning

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Boy, am I ever glad we dug carrots yesterday! They were frozen in the ground so I was hesitant as to their quality. After...