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...

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...