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!
Maggie was able to get another couple of gallons of milk from her Amish friend last week, so we made another wheel of cheese. We again made a simple farmhouse cheddar. After air curing for several days, the wheel of cheese was vacuum-sealed and placed in our 'cheese cave', which is a wine refrigerator I bought off Facebook Marketplace. We just need to wait 2 months for it to age, before we give it a try. Some may ask what happened to the first wheel of cheese we made. Most of
While at first glance it seems like this is the start of the garden season, in reality we have been working on our garden for the past 5 months. During January snow, we prepared our garden plan and paged through seed catalogues. In February, we went from generalities like 'tomatoes' to planning which eight varieties we were going to grow, checked our seed vault, and ordered seeds as needed. Things began to pick up speed in March as we started onions, peppers, brassicas, and h
