Way back in March, we laid out a handful of things we wanted to do with our land this year. This weekend, we were able to enjoy the last...

This year we managed to make a gallon of maple syrup, tapping only six trees and boiling down the sap over a firepit. While it was...

For the past two seasons I have seen many deer on our trail camera, but not many bucks. This fall, I decided to place the camera farther...

A couple of weekends ago now, Ed made me some compost containers from free pallets that he scavenged. While the pallets comprising the...

One tiny step forward toward my long-term goal of getting us off-grid. I just ordered and received an "All American Sun Oven". I plan...

Search any homesteader or natural remedy blog, and the search is bound to turn up at least one post on apple cider vinegar. It is so...

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...

One of the nice things about our progress rehabbing the farmhouse is that it is comfortable enough to invite visitors. Having actual...

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've gotten about 3 five gallon buckets of apples from our pasture. The apples taste somewhat like a Courtland apple even though they...

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...

The amount of black walnuts I've gathered has doubled since I took this picture. I've never done anything with raw / whole black walnuts...

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

The purchase of our "new to us" but old pick-up truck was a point of "disagreement" between Ed and I. Ed didn't think the purchase wqs...

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...

We are fortunate to have a property that is almost evenly split between tillable land and woods. When we were looking at properties to...