Home Improvement, Sustainability, and Organic Gardening in Progress
What do you do when your only child goes off to college? You buy an old farmstead in the Driftless Area of Wisconsin, of course!
Rehabbing a farmhouse, gardening, and dabbling with sustainability is keeping us busy. Share our adventures through our writings and photos of the work in progress!
Garden Seedlings and Baby Chicks First Year of New Daffodils Planted In Orchard Grass New Mama Chicken Sitting on 2 Just Hatched Baby Chicks It's a time of new life here right now and we're trying to steward this new life as best we can. We ordered a layer mix of 12 new pullets that were picked up 4 days ago. So far, they are doing well in their big tub set-up. We've got to wait about 6 weeks before we can move them into their transition coop outside. In addition, our hen
Straw As Mulch Around Newly Planted Blueberry "Bushes" Back in early winter when things were dreary, we got a fruit plant catalog in the mail. Looking through it, I got carried away and made a pretty significant and somewhat crazy order. I ordered blueberry bushes (we really don't have the right soil and will need to stay on top of amendments), gooseberries, elderberries (we have wild elderberry bushes but I wanted more...), a rhubarb variety that I wanted to add to our "col
