Finishing harvest & finding a rainbow
We're finishing up the harvest and getting the fields ready for winter. I also spotted a rainbow out by our apple orchard that I...
With the heat and the rain, boy, do we have bugs!
We've never had many mosquitoes here but this year I think everyone in Minnesota is complaining about them, us included. So we're fighting back!...
Rain is coming so we postponed haying
Meanwhile, Will and Eric are setting trusses up on the new barn. How exciting! After all this time, it's starting to quickly look like...
Q and A: canning tomatoes, canning root vegetables, raised beds and converting a hayfield
Canning tomatoes
I am canning tomatoes. Of course it seems time consuming. This year, for one batch I have pureed the entire tomato (minus the...
Q and A: variety of sweet corn and half-gallon jars
Sweet corn
What variety of sweet corn do you grow? During canning our sweet corn turned brown. I thought this is due to high sugar...