Despite the cool and dry weather, our spring wildflowers are starting to awaken. Every year the understory plants race to bloom and set...

We left the trail camera out for two weeks, and were rewarded with 936 photos. I have the camera set up to take a series of three photos...

We saw these on the ground in the backwoods; we googled them afterwards, still not certain what they are but the closest pictures I could...

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 put the trail camera away for the winter because the batteries die too quickly in the cold. We put it out again last weekend. It was...

At the start of the week, our plan was simple. We had taken Friday off to meet with a WDNR forester to walk our woodlots and learn about...

The good news was that when we checked our maple sap pails, they only had a bit of ice and were full. The bad news was that we had nearly...

This weekend we tried our hand at making maple syrup for the first time. After we got settled on Friday night, I took a walk with Maxie...

A couple of weeks ago we walked through our front woods and tagged a few maple trees to tap for syrup. I was able to find four Sugar...

As we wait for the calendar to flip from February to March, an important milestone is fast approaching. We will have owned our property...

I was walking through our middle woods, looking for Sugar Maple trees to tap for the upcoming sugaring season. I heard a loud cry...

Snow shoes were on sale at Fleet Farm, so we bought two pair. I took a walk to the back woods using the snow shoes for the first time. ...

I didn't have my camera with me and so I found the closest free stock photo I could. When working out by the barn this weekend, I looked...

We are not much of a gun family. Despite that, we have gradually acquired more guns than family members. My son was on his high school...

Woo hoo! The trees we had felled in April have been moved out of our side yard. The farmer was moving them with his Bobcat as I arrived...

This weekend, we had a scattering of cows in the fields just across the street; it was fun to watch... (they actually looked lots bigger...

The pictures aren't doing justice to what was an absolutely stunning and vibrant sunset on Saturday night.

We walked the back woods this weekend and saw these mushrooms on a fallen log.

I got up before the sun on the last day of my 5-day flooring project to put on the last coat of tung oil. The night before, I had checked...