One of the crops I was most excited about this year was our cucumbers, because I wanted to make pickles. Fortunately, we have had good...

The weather in August has tried to make up for the earlier part of the year. In Wisconsin, the wettest months are usually April, May, and...

As we flip the calendar from July to August, we move into the final month of summer. Rain has been scare, but has come at opportune times...

Our garden is entering a bit of a pause in production. The greens have bolted and the peas are nearly spent, and the cucumbers, tomatoes,...

When it rains, it pours, and last week was no exception. After several weeks without rain, we received about 3 inches of rain in 3 days....

As we wind down the first month of summer in our Year of the Garden, it is amazing how far our garden has come, and what it has overcome....

The garlic we planted last fall has been a bright spot in our garden. First appearing in early March, the garlic has, so far, survived...

Experiments with land and growing things can take time. Our shiitake mushroom experiment started over a year ago. In November 2019, part...

Sometimes, changes to our gardening methods work, and sometimes, they do not. This year, I made a couple of adjustments to my tomato seed...

I really like hardware stores. As Maggie can attest, I can spend an hour or more in a hardware store when I am working on a project and...

Most people take vacations to relax. They lay on a beach, or golf, or drink at the cruise ship bar. My 9-day vacation this spring did...

I traveled to Grandview Orchard on Friday to pick up our order of fruit trees, raspberries, and honeyberries. The last thing I did Friday...

Checking the National Weather Service website, the Madison area's average rainfall for April is 3.40 inches. The April 2021 rainfall...

Over a year ago now, we had first asked our neighboring farmer if he had any use for the 2 old (old old old) hay bales that were on our...

Rushing from task to task, it is sometimes difficult to stop and enjoy something. The end of March marked the time to start our first...

When Ed and I toured our "backyard" gardens for activity, we noticed that the garlic we had planted in the fall was beginning to sprout. ...

Today is the coldest day of the year to date. What better day, then, to have an order of garden seeds arrive? Now that we have a bigger...

As the first day of winter approaches, typing this as I sip a homebrewed hard apple cider, it is nearing the time when I like to reflect...

A couple of weekends ago now, Ed made me some compost containers from free pallets that he scavenged. While the pallets comprising the...

Search any homesteader or natural remedy blog, and the search is bound to turn up at least one post on apple cider vinegar. It is so...