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...

Another season of sugaring is in the books, and it was a wild one. With the mild winter, there was much discussion among the maple syrup...

Maggie and I once again attended the Madison Garden and Landscape Expo in February. This is a great event, as it combines an exhibition...

Walking our front pasture this past Saturday afternoon with Ed was glorious. The weather was almost spring like, it was bright and...

We've had our "homestead property" since March, 2019 (nearly 5 years as of this writing) and our main bathroom is still in it's original...

After seeing zero inches of snow in December and early January, it was starting to seem like our dry 2023 would carry over into 2024. We...

In a few weeks, we will be making our annual trip to the Wisconsin Garden and Landscape Expo. Since we use that trip as an opportunity to...