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...

This winter, we stumbled across a series of YouTube videos posted by Richland County Tourism, dubbed "The Richland County Food Trail"....

Much of our rehabbing was placed on pause last month for the 3-week maple syrup season. By the end of a day, I was usually too dirty with...

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. ...

I was 2-3 minutes too late in taking this picture and those 2-3 minutes made a world of difference in terms of the overall red sky...

The spiles are pulled and the buckets are washed and put away. With this week's warm temperatures came the end of our maple syrup season....

The weather has not been conducive for our maple trees to produce sap. I think it has been an odd combination of deep frost and an...

Constant checks of the Weather Channel app in late February can only mean one thing - the start of maple syrup season is upon us. Maple...

I do not watch a lot of homesteading YouTube channels, but Maggie has several she follows. As a result, when I open YouTube on our...

As we slowly expand our food production, a future step will be to have chickens for eggs and meat. While Maggie loves eggs, I am not a...

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...

Roger Cook from This Old House used to say that before you start construction, you have to have some destruction. Our staircase project...

In the quiet of winter, it seems like life takes a break from the bustle of summer. But life leaves signs of its presence in freshly...

Although we are starting to enter the depths of winter, March is just around the corner. Drivers through the Driftless Area will start to...

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...

I wasn't expecting to see snow when I opened our blinds this morning; but there it was - a light dusting of Wisconsin December snow on...

Once we finished our back hallway and laundry room project in September, we shifted to a couple of months of outdoor projects to enjoy...

With the pandemic still raging, our immediate family took a chance and gathered for Thanksgiving dinner. This is one of my favorite...

We live in an unincorporated township, run by a small town board. So small, that the town treasurer, who used to work at the high school...