By the end of last year's garden season, Maggie and I were exhausted. We spent the latter part of the summer canning every weekend, and...

I watch homesteading YouTube videos. I watched more of them prior to our getting our property 3+ years' ago; but, I still do watch some...

After several weeks of what has been the coldest, cloudiest, and dampest spring I can remember, we have immediately bypassed spring and...

This weekend, we crossed a boundary, going from solely raising plants to an addition of animals to the mix. While bees are technically...

Some days, nothing seems to go right. That was the case on the day I tried to install the shower plumbing for our basement bathroom...

It has been a cold spring, even by Wisconsin standards. We have not even had 'fool's spring' yet. The cold weather has not been kind to...

Picking a date to tap maple trees for syrup is tricky. The sap runs on days when the temperature is above freezing but the nighttime...

Although the winter season meant the end of gardening and other outdoor activities, there has been no shortage of things to do. We are...

Writing '2022 feels odd', but time marches on. Come March, we will be entering the fourth year of working on our property. It is hard to...

Used Stock Tank for Raised Bed Gardening

I am closing in on completing what has been a decades-long project. Many years ago, I thought it would be fun to build a weather station....

We reached an important milestone - we re-installed a toilet in the basement bathroom. After stripping the old adhesive from the concrete...

Over a year ago, I wrote a post about carving a wooden spoon from an oak tree that came down during a storm. Since then, we have had...

Our last garden report for the year of the garden... The first part of October saw us starting to pull some of the more cold-sensitive...

As happens in Wisconsin, indoor projects take a backseat when summer rolls around. The brevity of the summer season combined with nice...

It is hard to believe our garden has only been growing for four months. After our fool's spring, the garden got a foothold, survived a...

We are not farmers and yet we live in farm country with a mix of both hayfields and woods. We do lease our hayfields to a neighboring...

You can tell canning season has been too long when you get excited about finding a new style of jar. One of the problems that crop up in...

We have reached the point in the gardening season when we are tired of produce. We have eaten our fill of beans and summer squash, and...

Maggie and I have very different approaches to gardening. I purchase a relatively small variety of plants and seeds, record where they...