Q and A: fresh eggs floating, saving bean and pea seeds, and beaver forecast
Fresh eggs floating
I'd like to know your opinion on this or any insight you might have. A person who buys eggs from us complained that some of them floated when she immersed them in...
Will swears he won’t have any more birthdays
On his last birthday, a few days ago, his favorite cow dropped dead, our water line froze to the house, and we found out that a developer bought the two forty-acre parcels, which were...
We froze out last night
Not only did we have a frost, but it was also a deep freeze, with temps down to the very low twenties! We knew it was coming and picked nearly everything in the garden,...
Got compost?
While most homesteaders have a compost pile, we have several. And some are pretty BIG! All winter we feed our horses and cattle big round bales of hay. For years we scattered the bales...
Hey everyone, there was a mistake in the photo in the recent nut article
We made a mistake in the current issue, Issue No. 149, September/October 2014. In the article titled “Nut trees on your homestead,” we inadvertently put in the wrong photo over the caption that reads...