Even in the winter our apprentice is learning useful skills

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Besides learning to spin wool, son, David, showed Alisha how to run the snowblower. His machine is pretty high-tech with a joy-stick control for...

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The sun is out and the birds are singing I especially noticed this when I went to Homestead Mills to buy feed this morning. While...

Q and A: canning cream and wood flooring

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Canning cream Jackie - can I can fresh cream from my cow? I know that the stuff from the store is super heated and the...

It finally rained — 3 inches

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We knew it was coming so I got busy planting squash, melons, and corn, mostly in the North garden as it is chiefly clay....

Winter came…in October

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Thinking back to Laura Ingalls Wilder's book, The Long Winter, we looked outside to five inches of new snow and nighttime temperatures in the...