Q and A: meat bones, weed killer with soap, worming goats, and re-canning corn

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Meat bones and weed killer with soap First. If you take deer bones after cutting deer up, cut up bones and boil you will be surprised how much more meat from the bones that can...

Tomato time!

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With all of our peppers up, it's time for tomatoes. This year I planted more than 288 tomatoes. Of that number, there are 50 new varieties and 20 of our old standbys that we...

What do you do with 80 pounds of crabapples?

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I'm making applesauce! My friend just gave us a feed sack full of crab apples that she and her husband picked. Since she has more than she wants, she shared with me. So I...

Haying season is heavily upon us

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Now that the rains have finally come and gone, the forecast is for a week of warm, sunny weather. So Will is busy cutting hay. Yesterday he cut for 10 hours straight, doing four...

Holy cow are we rushing around lately!

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We saw, on our weather forecast, for Friday night and possibly Saturday night, temperatures in the low 30's F. Of course, we usually have temperatures of 5 degrees lower than they forecast, so we're...