The garlic we planted last fall has been a bright spot in our garden. First appearing in early March, the garlic has, so far, survived...

Experiments with land and growing things can take time. Our shiitake mushroom experiment started over a year ago. In November 2019, part...

Sometimes, changes to our gardening methods work, and sometimes, they do not. This year, I made a couple of adjustments to my tomato seed...

I really like hardware stores. As Maggie can attest, I can spend an hour or more in a hardware store when I am working on a project and...

Most people take vacations to relax. They lay on a beach, or golf, or drink at the cruise ship bar. My 9-day vacation this spring did...

I traveled to Grandview Orchard on Friday to pick up our order of fruit trees, raspberries, and honeyberries. The last thing I did Friday...

Checking the National Weather Service website, the Madison area's average rainfall for April is 3.40 inches. The April 2021 rainfall...

Over a year ago now, we had first asked our neighboring farmer if he had any use for the 2 old (old old old) hay bales that were on our...

Rushing from task to task, it is sometimes difficult to stop and enjoy something. The end of March marked the time to start our first...

When Ed and I toured our "backyard" gardens for activity, we noticed that the garlic we had planted in the fall was beginning to sprout. ...

Today is the coldest day of the year to date. What better day, then, to have an order of garden seeds arrive? Now that we have a bigger...

As the first day of winter approaches, typing this as I sip a homebrewed hard apple cider, it is nearing the time when I like to reflect...

A couple of weekends ago now, Ed made me some compost containers from free pallets that he scavenged. While the pallets comprising the...

Search any homesteader or natural remedy blog, and the search is bound to turn up at least one post on apple cider vinegar. It is so...

Gardeners are probably the only people excited to get a load of manure. Last month, our farmer neighbor was taking a short cut around our...

Rose hip is the round portion of the rose flower just below the petals; it contains the seeds of the rose plant. Because I'm trying to...

With two last pints of tomato sauce, we have made it through another homesteading rite of passage - canning season. We by no means have...

At the start of morel mushroom season, I had visions of finding so many mushrooms that I would have enough to sell at the annual Muscoda...

Even though we only had four tomato plants this year, we ended up with way more tomatoes than we could possibly eat fresh (and I’ve been...

The timer chimed - my second batch of wild grape jelly was ready to be removed from its boiling water bath. When I took the lid off the...