Four Bales of Last Year's Hay (Grass Really) - No Chemicals While we did get woodchips delivered last fall for the garden, I've been...

Two 250 Gallon Covered Totes By Barn For Future Animals Two 40 Gallon Barrels Used To Water Chickens While recently on Craigslist, I...

I love going to estate sales and rummage sales. I usually have a short mental list of things I am looking for. As an example, I am hoping...

In an attempt to finish before spring planting begins, almost all projects have been put on hold to make time to finish our bathroom...

Two Black Cats On White Bedspread I don't know why but when I saw the two sets of eyes coming from the pile of black fur - it just made...

Regular Large Brown Egg, Smaller Blue/Green Egg (sort of pullet sized; from a small chicken), and Our First Fairy Egg All of our chickens...

Old Pickup Truck with Old Pallets We paid $5 per used pallet; I went and got them today. Ed wants to start building a chicken tractor...

Chairs by a Firepit/Burn Pile It's only March 9th but it's over 60 F degrees. I couldn't help myself - I set the chairs we got from...

Old Garden Shed Made of Tin Garage Side Porch - Screened In Much of what was in our garage side porch has been and will continue to be...

Tuff's Super-Duty 110 Gallon Stock Tank Last weekend we made a trip to Tractor Supply to see if we could find a better alternative to the...

Although we had snow today, we have begun our garden for the year! One of the challenges of gardening year after year is that the chores...

A couple of weeks ago, Maggie and I attended the newly renamed "Garden and Green Living Expo" in Madison. As always, we enjoyed getting...

With the new year comes a new garden plan. We have reached the point where the scars, trials, and tribulations from last year's garden...

Several years ago, we successfully grew shiitake mushrooms using oak logs. Ironwood is also used to grow these mushrooms, so 2 years ago...

After years of harvesting honey, we have accumulated a considerable amount of beeswax. While looking through a bee supply catalogue, I...

Among the gardening and other outdoor activities, we still have a house we are trying to update. We are slowly nearing the finish line,...

One of the fun things about living in an area with many small communities, local businesses, and non-profits is that many host events to...

It's been tradition for as long as Ed and I have been married for Ed to make the pumpkin pie for his side of the family's Thanksgiving...

We finally completed one of the hardest tasks of the year, which is getting the gardens ready for winter. Usually, we have this completed...

While not always possible, we're trying to build out our remaining projects using recycled / repurposed items. Ed recently had a couple...