With the lack of rain each of the past two growing seasons, especially the 2023 drought, gardening has recently been a challenge. While...

Four Year Old Cherry Tree With Cherries We planted this cherry tree about 4 years ago (maybe even 5 years ago; Ed would know for sure). ...

Three And A Half Week Old Chicks in New Outdoor Chicken Coop. The new coop Ed built for giving our new pullets more room, for acclimating...

This week I finished building and painting frames for the windows and doors of the new coop. Some hardware cloth and hinges and the coop...

This weekend I made more progress on the mobile coop. The sides got added and painted. I held off on the roof until the paint dried, and...

June is dairy month, and we continued our tradition of going to the Vernon County dairy breakfast. This year, the event was held at the...

We have started to let our asparagus bed go to fronds, so the plants can recharge for next year. The garden has started to produce the...

One of my goals for this year was to try and raise broiler chickens or ducks. To do that, I needed to build another chicken coop. Many...

Fingerling Radishes on Counter They may not seem like much but they are a lot to me: our first radishes of the season (minus the one I...

Newly Planated Garden With Hay Mulch It's official - our garden is now fully planted (mainly due to Ed's hard work). While I planted 3...

Baby Chicks In New Home (Tub) With Heat Plates, Etc. When Ed and I placed our order for egg laying pullets in February at the local feed...

As things started to green up this spring, I was anxious to see if the lavender I planted last year survived the winter. The good news...

Amish Buggies Parked in Field for School Auction Event Parking and Auction Building for Amish School Auction Event There is an Amish...

Like most gardeners, our spring and summer are spent fighting a wide variety of weeds. Over the years, we have employed several methods...

Spring usually brings two large jobs. One is fairly fun, which is getting the garden planted. The second, less enjoyable job, is mucking...

Although it is still a little cool out, we have begun planting for the 2025 garden season. Last weekend, Maggie planted peas, carrots,...

First Of The Season Asparagus Poking Through In The Garden Today is April 29th here in SE WI. I'm not sure we've ever had asparagus poke...

It's been almost 6 years since we purchased our rural "retirement" property / home. There's one bathroom on the main level and another...

Older Seed Starts On Garden Shelves In Front of Window Some of our seed starts have gotten too big for their initial home. (We start our...

One project that I was able to squeeze in was inoculating some logs for shiitake mushrooms. I cut these logs back in December, so I only...