We have reached the point in the gardening season when we are tired of produce. We have eaten our fill of beans and summer squash, and...

One of the crops I was most excited about this year was our cucumbers, because I wanted to make pickles. Fortunately, we have had good...

The weather in August has tried to make up for the earlier part of the year. In Wisconsin, the wettest months are usually April, May, and...

As we flip the calendar from July to August, we move into the final month of summer. Rain has been scare, but has come at opportune times...

Our garden is entering a bit of a pause in production. The greens have bolted and the peas are nearly spent, and the cucumbers, tomatoes,...

One of our side projects this summer has been figuring out a better way to get water out of our rain barrel. We have a 30-gallon poly...

As we wind down the first month of summer in our Year of the Garden, it is amazing how far our garden has come, and what it has overcome....

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

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...

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...

I bought my All American Sun Oven last fall; however, it's taken me until now to use it. I've been making sour dough bread all winter...

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...

The spiles are pulled and the buckets are washed and put away. With this week's warm temperatures came the end of our maple syrup season....

The weather has not been conducive for our maple trees to produce sap. I think it has been an odd combination of deep frost and an...

Constant checks of the Weather Channel app in late February can only mean one thing - the start of maple syrup season is upon us. Maple...

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...

Although we are starting to enter the depths of winter, March is just around the corner. Drivers through the Driftless Area will start to...

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...

With the pandemic still raging, our immediate family took a chance and gathered for Thanksgiving dinner. This is one of my favorite...