Gardeners are probably the only people excited to get a load of manure. Last month, our farmer neighbor was taking a short cut around our...

Rose hip is the round portion of the rose flower just below the petals; it contains the seeds of the rose plant. Because I'm trying to...

With two last pints of tomato sauce, we have made it through another homesteading rite of passage - canning season. We by no means have...

At the start of morel mushroom season, I had visions of finding so many mushrooms that I would have enough to sell at the annual Muscoda...

Even though we only had four tomato plants this year, we ended up with way more tomatoes than we could possibly eat fresh (and I’ve been...

The timer chimed - my second batch of wild grape jelly was ready to be removed from its boiling water bath. When I took the lid off the...

I recently made a trip to Viroqua on a Saturday and was very pleased to find and go to the farmers' market there. I had my mind set on...

This weekend, I assembled a store bought small / simple seed starting greenhouse that I had gotten for Christmas many years ago for seed...

As the days begin to shorten and fruits and vegetables ripen, food preservation season is upon us. We have canned food on and off for...

While we foresaw 2020 as another year of rehabbing the house, we wanted to at least get a start on some vegetable gardening to...

We've eaten the odd onion hear and there when we've accidentally mowed over the onion greens / tops; but, this weekend, we pulled about...

Our first garden plantings; 4 tomato plants and 3 rhubarb plants. We used old tin siding to kill the grass prior to planting plant our...

In a few weeks, the native morel mushrooms will start to appear in our woods. In the meantime, we started a shiitake mushroom garden. Our...

We are ready for the inoculation of our oak logs (from the large limb that fell this past October) come April. We purchased our Shiitake...

Writing this, I glance out the window and watch the snow starting to pile up. We have had a mild winter so far, but today we are getting...

This raised bed frame is more of a sample than anything. It's made from the fallen Pine trees from April and because it's made of pine...

When we first purchased our property, Ed’s mother (who’s active with her local garden club) gave us some Milkweed seeds to plant. Because...

Early in the spring, I thought that the sprouting plants would be Hyacinths; but the Hyacinths never came. Here at the End of August, we...

We’ve had Mr. Rooster (and his companion, Ms. Piggy) for a good 15 years or so; mainly in our Milwaukee family room. We initially spotted...

These suprised us near the side of the house and near the barn; they appear to be perennials (at least we hope they are)...