Canning and building goes forward
With our entire gardens harvested, we switched energy to canning up the produce as quickly as possible. Those twelve big crates of tomatoes on the enclosed back porch are beginning to ripen quite quickly....
Harvest time is now upon us
Despite the drought and super high (for us) temperatures all summer, our crops are finally rewarding us with their first bounty. Today I picked a basket full of nice ripe tomatoes of many different...
Oh happy day!
A friend of ours called last night saying someone he knew had a big lot of new, unused 300 + watt solar panels to sell cheap. He was buying three for himself and our...
It’s a battle: who will win, the weeds or us?
As our weather has settled pretty well, with us getting rain every few days and warmth in between, the plants are looking good, including the sweet corn we've planted twice. But then, so are...
The harvest continues; this time it’s wild plums
This time of year, we're constantly busy harvesting and putting up not only the garden produce but our wild crops as well. Luckily we have many on our homestead and this year we've been...