Q and A: Sweet and spicy pickles, planting potatoes, and planting fruit bushes
Sweet and spicy pickles
What I would like is a recipe for sweet and spicy pickles. My husband and I were at a flea market in Abilene, Texas and bought a jar from a vendor....
We’re happy to share our homestead, even with snakes
We have a large, fat garter snake hanging around which gives us a startle once in awhile. But we like having him around as he eats plenty of grasshoppers and other pests in the...
Are we having fun yet?
Well, yes, actually. We're still drywalling and mudding. But the good news is that we also have our new woodstove hooked up and heating! And it does a good job, too. We even took...
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?...
The cows got into our pumpkin/corn patch
Yesterday Will was bulldozing the horse manure in the horse pasture where we feed round bales all winter up into a compost pile. He noticed that the cows seemed to be too far north...