Fall Trail Cam
For the past two seasons I have seen many deer on our trail camera, but not many bucks. This fall, I decided to place the camera farther...
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Maggie
Nov 1, 20201 min read
Free Pallet Compost Bins / Containers
A couple of weekends ago now, Ed made me some compost containers from free pallets that he scavenged. While the pallets comprising the...
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Maggie
Nov 1, 20202 min read
Our New "All American Sun Oven"
One tiny step forward toward my long-term goal of getting us off-grid. I just ordered and received an "All American Sun Oven". I plan...
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Ed
Oct 13, 20205 min read
Apple Cider, Hard Apple Cider, Apple Cider Vinegar, Apple Scrap Vinegar - Where Does it Stop?
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...
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Ed
Oct 11, 20202 min read
Getting a Jump on the 2021 Garden
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...
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Maggie
Oct 11, 20202 min read
Harvesting and Drying Rose Hips for Tea
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...
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Ed
Oct 7, 20202 min read
Friends and Family Visit
One of the nice things about our progress rehabbing the farmhouse is that it is comfortable enough to invite visitors. Having actual...
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Ed
Sep 29, 20202 min read
Food Preservation Roundup
With two last pints of tomato sauce, we have made it through another homesteading rite of passage - canning season. We by no means have...
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Ed
Sep 24, 20202 min read
Food Dehydration Test
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...
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Maggie
Sep 22, 20204 min read
Preserving Tomatoes Via Fermentation
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...
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Ed
Sep 9, 20206 min read
Canning Catastrophes
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...
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Maggie
Aug 30, 20201 min read
Apples Ready for Picking
I've gotten about 3 five gallon buckets of apples from our pasture. The apples taste somewhat like a Courtland apple even though they...
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Maggie
Aug 30, 20201 min read
Will be Planting Garlic at the End of September / Beginning of October
I recently made a trip to Viroqua on a Saturday and was very pleased to find and go to the farmers' market there. I had my mind set on...
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Maggie
Aug 30, 20201 min read
Need to Find Something to do with Walnuts
The amount of black walnuts I've gathered has doubled since I took this picture. I've never done anything with raw / whole black walnuts...
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Maggie
Aug 30, 20201 min read
"Greenhouse"
This weekend, I assembled a store bought small / simple seed starting greenhouse that I had gotten for Christmas many years ago for seed...
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Maggie
Aug 30, 20201 min read
Meet Our New "Work Horse"
The purchase of our "new to us" but old pick-up truck was a point of "disagreement" between Ed and I. Ed didn't think the purchase wqs...
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Ed
Aug 23, 20204 min read
Wild Grape Jelly
As the days begin to shorten and fruits and vegetables ripen, food preservation season is upon us. We have canned food on and off for...
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Ed
Aug 11, 20203 min read
Forest Walkthrough
We are fortunate to have a property that is almost evenly split between tillable land and woods. When we were looking at properties to...
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Ed
Aug 9, 20203 min read
Deck the Hall
Our back hallway is the hardest working area of the house. It leads to our back door, which is our primary route in and out of the house....
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Ed
Aug 6, 20203 min read
Tomato Time
While we foresaw 2020 as another year of rehabbing the house, we wanted to at least get a start on some vegetable gardening to...
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