Q&A: Making jelly and Growing wheat

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Making jelly For years I have enjoyed Jackie's articles, recently bought her canning book and I have a question. In the past I've put my...

Mittens not only kills mice and rabbits, but weasels too

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Our little half-pint kitty, Mittens, has turned out to be a very efficient homestead varmint catcher. She's caught hundreds of mice, voles and shrews,...

We got our first good freeze, and boy are we harvesting!

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Despite falling off our barn roof, we still got a great, productive (although very weedy!) garden this year. Our plants outdid themselves. Before the...

Nice weather equals lots of planting

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We had a few very nice days (except for the mosquitoes and sand flies!) so Will and I were very busy planting. He set...

We had a busy week

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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...