We had a good time at the MREA Fair

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My carpenter friend, Tom, and I manned the booth at Custer, Wisconsin, this weekend. We met a lot of old friends and met new ones. It's just like a family reunion! I got to...

I’m five flats into planting squash seeds

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Despite being busy with the typical it's-really-spring outside tasks like cleaning out flower beds, getting the six gardens ready to till and manure, mowing the lawn for the first time and getting Ava's pony...

Will and I took a trip to the back of the Big Pines forty...

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It was nice yesterday so Will took me out to see a spot he'd discovered while making ATV trails through the dead, blown-down fir on our new Big Pines forty. It was a gentle...

Q and A: shelf life of apple juice and Canada Crookneck seeds

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Shelf life of apple juice If using a Mehu-Liisa to extract apple juice, is draining the hot liquid into a properly cleaned and heated jar with a two piece canning lid all that is needed?...

Finally, after a week of cold rain, the sun comes out

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We have had a summer with no summer. A friend I talked to today said yesterday it was 33 degrees early in the morning! And we've had highs of 50 for a week. Even...