Due to our crazy summer weather, we’re in full planting mode
The weather is usually a lot cooler this time of the year with frosts at night. But this year we went right into summer and have been having temperatures in the 80’s and 90’s,...
Q and A: Canning milk and All male blossoms on squash
Canning milk
I have your cookbook and want to try canning some milk. Have you ever done it in smaller quantities than quarts? I was thinking I'd like to do half-pints. I think that's a...
Q&A: Transplanting tomatoes & Trimming tough hooves
Transplanting tomatoes
I tried transplanting tomato plants last year with little success. What vegetable plants transplant from indoor starts well and is there something I should have done to the tomatoes to help them adjust...
Will and Christian cleaned out the cow stall and yard
Taking advantage of the great weather, Christian manned the tough job of hand-pitching a winter's worth of calf poop and old bedding out of the old goat barn/cow stall so we could put Lace...
Q and A: putting a pump on a well, tomato hornworms, and bent toes...
Putting a pump on a well
I recently bought a house in Elkhart, Indiana. It had a well. Is there a way I can get it open it and put a hand pump in it?...