Q and A: free-ranging pigs, canned pinto beans, and sunless strawberries
Free-ranging pigs
I remember you telling about a pig that spent the winter free and that it did very well. I wonder what kind of pigs you raise and do you think I could raise...
We have plenty of irons in the fire
Most people have a spring project or two going right now. We have a dozen! Eeeek! Let's see, our garden is being planted. I have just planted 50 tomato plants, in their Wall'o Waters,...
Our snow is here to stay, I’m thinking
We do our outside chores then come inside to work hard at shelling corn, winnowing away the chaff in the wind outside, then stock both our shelf bins and seed packets, print out labels,...
The Hopi Pale Grey squash are burying my tiller
I left my TroyBilt tiller between my squash rows, after tilling in manure I'd hauled out there from the goat barn. I figured it was a nice, dry spot, where I could begin tilling...
Work on the new pasture continues
As the spring weather continues to be warm and very dry, we've been working hard on clearing and preparing the new pasture for seeding. It was a terrible tangle of old logging debris, low...