Picking snow peas for the second time today (the first time was only 4 hours prior) reinforced some important life tools for me today. In...

At any one picking, we're not getting a "ton" at this point; however, we are having fun with what we are getting. Today, we picked Black...

The average precipitation for Richland County is about 5 inches. Last summer, we were lucky to have gotten an inch of rain in June, and...

I'm in the process of learning about all of the medicinal benefits of herbs and other greens. I've bought reference books that outline...

I picked our first round of garlic scapes this morning (there will be more). I need to find something new to do with them. ...

Ed first planted strawberry plants in our garden last year; however, it was a drought year AND we had huge problems with some sort of...

It took nearly 3 months, but the 2024 version of our garden is finally completed. The extra time this year was spent installing a fence...

Ed and I are still relatively new gardeners. Historically, when buying seeds for garden sweet corn, we've bought little packets of seed...

This spring has been a little rainier and warmer than usual, which has triggered an early burst of greenery. One of the plants making a...

The lavender we started from seed a few weeks ago ended up with a fairly good germination rate. The 'Vera' variety performed best, with...

Since we first started our homesteading adventure, we have given each year a theme. While work overlaps from year to year, we find that...

One of the end-of-year projects we always have is a review of how our garden performed. Every year we rotate crops and try new varieties,...

We've harvested lots of rhubarb this season. I've been canning rhubarb and freezing it as it comes in. While I've made rhubarb Jell-o...

Maybe we're just too new to growing pumpkins, but having an orange pumpkin (3 actually) on August 1st in Wisconsin seems way too early. ...

In mid to late April, a friend gave me some potato starts as a gift. Excited, I planted them right away. Here and Wisconsin, April is...

While spring started several weeks ago, today was the first day it seemed the weather got the memo. Sunshine, blue sky, temperature...

I love estate sales and rummage sales. I look at them as little treasure hunts. Stores today all carry the same homogenized merchandise,...

Every year it is the same. By October, we are tired of the abundance of squash and canning pickles, but by the first snowfall in...

Today I shucked some dried beans we'd let go to seed (for next years' seed and maybe just a little to actually eat). Yesterday, I picked...

We made three trips to a local cattle farmer family who raise 90+ meat cows. We had our old Dodge Dakota pick-up truck pulling a trailer...