Harvest time starts in earnest
Although we have been harvesting for a couple months now, including our asparagus and rhubarb, not to mention lettuce, radishes, pigweed, and lamb's quarter, our main harvesting started yesterday. I'd been watching the first...
We’ve been spending a lot of time keeping everyone warm
Under the spell of the Polar Vortex, we've experienced temperatures of -40° F every night with highs often reaching, perhaps -13°. Today was a heat wave! It only got to 40 below last night...
We got snow, but dodged the big storm
Up to 12 inches of new snow was forecast for us. We check our weather radio every morning as that often dictates what we'll be doing. And since we were hearing about a big...
We worked super hard to get ready for freezing temperatures
Around here, hard freezes usually come way before this. And we're so grateful that this year we had a very long fall so we could get more and more of our crops harvested before...
Spring, glorious Spring
Although our weather's sunny and bright with the birds singing, it's a bit cool this morning — down to the mid-forties. But we're sure okay with that. Will decided it was time he started...