This picture of our garden was taken a week ago on July 6. We planted this garden between May 31 and June 7. With all of the rain we've...

Picking snow peas for the second time today (the first time was only 4 hours prior) reinforced some important life tools for me today. In...

At any one picking, we're not getting a "ton" at this point; however, we are having fun with what we are getting. Today, we picked Black...

The average precipitation for Richland County is about 5 inches. Last summer, we were lucky to have gotten an inch of rain in June, and...

I walked all the way around the hay field and checked out all of the tried and true black cap plants near our house. This is all that I...

The second time was the charm. The first attempt at trying to integrate new pullets to our existing flock was terrible (all kinds of...

I'm in the process of learning about all of the medicinal benefits of herbs and other greens. I've bought reference books that outline...

I picked our first round of garlic scapes this morning (there will be more). I need to find something new to do with them. ...

Ed first planted strawberry plants in our garden last year; however, it was a drought year AND we had huge problems with some sort of...

Ever since I was a kid, I loved to collect things. Bottle caps, rocks, beer cans, were all fair game. As an adult, my collecting became...

Boy - did I make a series of mistakes in judgement! Thank goodness I was able to course correct and all is well (at least for now)....

Ed and I've been talking about getting a couple of pullets again this spring so that we'll have eggs over the winter. (Only first year...

We have an area no larger than an acre near our house and the road. The soil in this area is very sandy and there are "lots" of pine...

It took nearly 3 months, but the 2024 version of our garden is finally completed. The extra time this year was spent installing a fence...

Ed and I are still relatively new gardeners. Historically, when buying seeds for garden sweet corn, we've bought little packets of seed...

This spring has been a little rainier and warmer than usual, which has triggered an early burst of greenery. One of the plants making a...

Unfortunately, all three of our hives failed to make it through the winter. I pulled all three apart last weekend to look for clues and...

The lavender we started from seed a few weeks ago ended up with a fairly good germination rate. The 'Vera' variety performed best, with...

We are always on the hunt for local open houses and events, to learn more about small-scale agriculture in the Driftless Area. I recently...

As part of our "Year of the Perennial", we are trying our hand at growing lavender from seed. We have found that a lot of the lavender...