Spring has Sprung
After several weeks of what has been the coldest, cloudiest, and dampest spring I can remember, we have immediately bypassed spring and...
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Ed
May 5, 20224 min read
Our First Livestock
This weekend, we crossed a boundary, going from solely raising plants to an addition of animals to the mix. While bees are technically...
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Ed
Apr 27, 20223 min read
Plumbing Progress
Some days, nothing seems to go right. That was the case on the day I tried to install the shower plumbing for our basement bathroom...
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Ed
Mar 28, 20222 min read
2022 Maple Syrup Roundup
It has been a cold spring, even by Wisconsin standards. We have not even had 'fool's spring' yet. The cold weather has not been kind to...
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Ed
Mar 12, 20221 min read
A Cold Syrup Season
Picking a date to tap maple trees for syrup is tricky. The sap runs on days when the temperature is above freezing but the nighttime...
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Ed
Feb 22, 20222 min read
Winter Classes
Although the winter season meant the end of gardening and other outdoor activities, there has been no shortage of things to do. We are...
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Ed
Dec 28, 20213 min read
2022 is the Year of the 'B'
Writing '2022 feels odd', but time marches on. Come March, we will be entering the fourth year of working on our property. It is hard to...
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Ed
Dec 19, 20211 min read
New to Us Used Stock Tank for Raised Bed Garden
Used Stock Tank for Raised Bed Gardening
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Ed
Dec 19, 20212 min read
Weather Station
I am closing in on completing what has been a decades-long project. Many years ago, I thought it would be fun to build a weather station....
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Ed
Dec 19, 20211 min read
Bathroom Update
We reached an important milestone - we re-installed a toilet in the basement bathroom. After stripping the old adhesive from the concrete...
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Ed
Nov 26, 20212 min read
Finally Finished a Spoon
Over a year ago, I wrote a post about carving a wooden spoon from an oak tree that came down during a storm. Since then, we have had...
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Ed
Nov 6, 20213 min read
October Garden Report
Our last garden report for the year of the garden... The first part of October saw us starting to pull some of the more cold-sensitive...
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Ed
Oct 11, 20211 min read
Basement Bathroom Update
As happens in Wisconsin, indoor projects take a backseat when summer rolls around. The brevity of the summer season combined with nice...
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Ed
Oct 3, 20212 min read
September Garden Report
It is hard to believe our garden has only been growing for four months. After our fool's spring, the garden got a foothold, survived a...
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Maggie
Oct 1, 20213 min read
Earning Money from Our Land
We are not farmers and yet we live in farm country with a mix of both hayfields and woods. We do lease our hayfields to a neighboring...
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Ed
Sep 30, 20212 min read
Right Jar for the Jam
You can tell canning season has been too long when you get excited about finding a new style of jar. One of the problems that crop up in...
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Ed
Sep 9, 20212 min read
Canning Exhaustion
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...
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Ed
Sep 8, 20211 min read
What Seed was that From?
Maggie and I have very different approaches to gardening. I purchase a relatively small variety of plants and seeds, record where they...
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Ed
Aug 27, 20212 min read
Pickles Multiple Ways
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...
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Ed
Aug 27, 20212 min read
August Garden Report
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...
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