Those darn varments! Something takes bites out of my best root vegetables preventing me from leaving them in the ground if I want to...

Last fall I harvested a boatload of hickory nuts from our front woods. Instead of tossing the husks, I saved the husks / shells to use...

Last summer, I did learn that the common / wild / invasive Daylily plant is entirely edible (not the more modern and engineered version...

I had purchased my hanging tiered "solar" food dehydrator that has internal shelves and zippers to access each "shelf" from Amazon...

Everything happens for a reason. The older I get, the more I believe it. This is just a small example (I've got big examples, but...

"Make hay while the sun shines" I think the saying goes. Well... today I needed to make hay so to speak. Last night, after harvesting my...

I've been doing a bit of pressure canning lately; however, today, I steam canned 12 pints of wild raspberry jam (no pectin). It was...

After months of looking at concrete walls, wall studs, or concrete backer board-covered walls, we finally have final finish walls for our...

The pad looks different than I remember it, but all is installed now and ready to go. The installers were nice enough to walk through...

While walking around the garden this evening, I found some broccoli heads (much to my surprise), some asparagus (again - surprise), and...

Ever since Thursday, I've been harvesting our wild raspberries. The bushes are scattered throughout our property (mainly along the hedge...

Once the rough plumbing was finally completed, the shower in the basement bathroom has finally started to take shape. Rather than...

I wish I would have noticed the time that the installers arrived this morning. It was early - maybe 8 or 9am. They left at about...

I started canning at 5pm today. It's 11:45pm now and I'll be retiring shortly. The plan was to only do one batch; however, I had enough...

Wisconsin takes dairy seriously. June is National Dairy Month, and the Wisconsin Dairy Farmers trade group celebrates it by coordinating...

Ed approved the purchase and even assembled my (Maggie's) new canopied "porch" swing. Why? Because I have always loved to swing and yet...

This is not a paid advertisement - at all. But I did list our land on HLRBO about a week ago. I listed it as a Bow Season Only Hunting...

Our second salad of the 2022 gardening season complete with radishes. It's so exciting to this (former) city girl to produce her own food...

For fifteen years or more in our city house, I would plant flowers galore in our back yard and in attractive large pots on our patio. ...

Five-thirty Friday morning brought some unexpected "excitement" to Blackhammer Acres. About a week ago, our neighboring farmer said he'd...