Who Knew? The Entire Wild Daylily Plant is Edible!
Last summer, I did learn that the common / wild / invasive Daylily plant is entirely edible (not the more modern and engineered version...
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Maggie
Jul 13, 20221 min read
New Electricity Free Food Dehydrator
I had purchased my hanging tiered "solar" food dehydrator that has internal shelves and zippers to access each "shelf" from Amazon...
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Maggie
Jul 13, 20222 min read
Accidently Discovered It's Onion Harvest Time
Everything happens for a reason. The older I get, the more I believe it. This is just a small example (I've got big examples, but...
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Maggie
Jul 13, 20222 min read
Preserving Garden Harvests as They Come In
"Make hay while the sun shines" I think the saying goes. Well... today I needed to make hay so to speak. Last night, after harvesting my...
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Maggie
Jul 10, 20221 min read
Steamer Canning Wild Raspberry Jam - So Easy!
I've been doing a bit of pressure canning lately; however, today, I steam canned 12 pints of wild raspberry jam (no pectin). It was...
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Ed
Jul 10, 20223 min read
Shower Walls
After months of looking at concrete walls, wall studs, or concrete backer board-covered walls, we finally have final finish walls for our...
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Maggie
Jul 7, 20221 min read
Wood Burning Stove Install Now Complete
The pad looks different than I remember it, but all is installed now and ready to go. The installers were nice enough to walk through...
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Maggie
Jul 6, 20221 min read
Fresh from the Garden Mish/Mash - Keeping it Simple
While walking around the garden this evening, I found some broccoli heads (much to my surprise), some asparagus (again - surprise), and...
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Maggie
Jul 3, 20221 min read
Wild Raspberry Time of Year
Ever since Thursday, I've been harvesting our wild raspberries. The bushes are scattered throughout our property (mainly along the hedge...
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Ed
Jul 2, 20222 min read
Shower Status
Once the rough plumbing was finally completed, the shower in the basement bathroom has finally started to take shape. Rather than...
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Maggie
Jun 28, 20222 min read
New Wood Burning Stove Install - Not Quite Complete But...
I wish I would have noticed the time that the installers arrived this morning. It was early - maybe 8 or 9am. They left at about...
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Maggie
Jun 21, 20221 min read
11:45pm and 17 Pints of Canned Mixed Greens - Complete
I started canning at 5pm today. It's 11:45pm now and I'll be retiring shortly. The plan was to only do one batch; however, I had enough...
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Ed
Jun 21, 20222 min read
Dairy Month
Wisconsin takes dairy seriously. June is National Dairy Month, and the Wisconsin Dairy Farmers trade group celebrates it by coordinating...
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Maggie
Jun 13, 20221 min read
New Covered Swing for Maggie (and Ed)
Ed approved the purchase and even assembled my (Maggie's) new canopied "porch" swing. Why? Because I have always loved to swing and yet...
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Maggie
Jun 8, 20222 min read
Not a Paid Advertisement - HLRBO
This is not a paid advertisement - at all. But I did list our land on HLRBO about a week ago. I listed it as a Bow Season Only Hunting...
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Maggie
Jun 8, 20221 min read
Second Salad of our 2022 Gardening Season
Our second salad of the 2022 gardening season complete with radishes. It's so exciting to this (former) city girl to produce her own food...
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Maggie
May 30, 20222 min read
No "English Country Flower Garden" for Me
For fifteen years or more in our city house, I would plant flowers galore in our back yard and in attractive large pots on our patio. ...
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Maggie
May 29, 20224 min read
Who Let the Cows Out???
Five-thirty Friday morning brought some unexpected "excitement" to Blackhammer Acres. About a week ago, our neighboring farmer said he'd...
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Ed
May 20, 20222 min read
Clean Slate
By the end of last year's garden season, Maggie and I were exhausted. We spent the latter part of the summer canning every weekend, and...
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Maggie
May 18, 20223 min read
Maggie's Layens Bee Hives
I watch homesteading YouTube videos. I watched more of them prior to our getting our property 3+ years' ago; but, I still do watch some...
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