Homesteading isn’t all peaches and cream — sometimes it’s weeds and sour milk.
Generally homesteading is a wonderfully fulfilling life. That's until you go out first thing in the dewy morning to see six cows happily munching down the last of the Seneca Sunrise sweet corn in...
It’s been hot, hot, hot — even here in northern Minnesota
Will has the fence around the new forty acres done to the point that the horses can be turned in, with four wires on three sides and two wires on the farthest side. It's...
We had a busy week
Of course, we were planting, planting, planting. I've been trying to clean out the greenhouse except for the various habaneros I am trying this year, which need heat and a longer season than we...
In between rains, we’re still able to work outside
We're very glad to have been getting rain, as we'd been in drought all winter. I'm hoping this means our drought is done with, so we'll have a "normal" summer. While we've sure dealt...
We’re madly harvesting tomato seeds
We've had really nice fall weather, sunny and warm. So to take advantage of it, I've been harvesting tomato seeds every day. Saturday, Will's step-mom and her friend Janann stopped by on their trip...