Get out there and vote!

Stop what you are doing and run right out and vote! Today is the day if you haven't already sent in your ballot or been an early voter. ...

I Won A Major Award!

My first real major award! And I won it! I've been trying to win the "guess the pumpkin weight" contest at our feed store for ...

Frankenstorm Preps

Good golly would you look at the weather map ! East Side friends, do you have your storm preps ready? Seems like next week is going to be a...

Wednesday Happy Snaps

I'm really enjoying the new camera!  Here are a few happy snaps from around the farm.  Nibbles could be grazing but she's eating out...

How To Eat Food You Know

The most often asked question I get about farming is something along the lines of, "How do you eat food that you know?" Or more li...

Exclusive Self Portrait With New Camera!

My new camera arrived! I was literally stalking the mail guy yesterday - what a great day!  So to celebrate the fancy new camera I present t...

Smell ya later, Summer

Just a couple happy snaps for Monday - the last of the quick pix from my old camera. I've been anxiously tracking the shipping of my new...

Planting Garlic

I've been planting garlic over the last week or so. I don't have any idea what I'm doing. This is not a "how to" but m...

Last Harvest Supper

We had another cold night and I think the news is going to call it "the end of the growing season" now. Its a good thing I brought...

Final Harvest

Yesterday I scampered around taking up as much of the harvest as I could. Good thing too because we had our first hard frost. The news says ...

I Got A Big Pear

Or at least that is what they say..... One big pair of pears Now I just gotta figure out how to get these big pears out of the tree. We didn...

Turnip of Doom

This is one of the fun things about growing turnips..... That is one big turnip. A turnip of DOOM!  Be afraid... be very afraid. Anybody els...

Tech Troubles and MEN

Unfortunately both my camera and my laptop are giving me fits lately. So apologies to everyone who has been kind enough to leave comments - ...

Working on the alfalfa field

One of the projects we want to get going is our own source of hay. This was a bad hay year - it was so dry that most farmers could not get e...

Taking Down the Big Sunflowers

I couldn't wait any longer and spent yesterday taking down the big sunflower garden. I hated doing it because it was my favorite garden....

Out Past The Gate

I was going to do a post on canning today but my pal D. had a tough day yesterday and asked me for a "tail" of dog bravery... so I...

Varmint Killing 101: Rats

Alright folks, huddle up. Let's talk about rats and how to rid your barnyard of that pestilence carrying vermin. Like it or not, rats wi...

Cherokee Purple

Finally! My late-planted Cherokee Purple tomatoes are finally ripe! Aren't they just beautiful? I love the green shoulders. And they are...

Turnip-rrific!

Thanks to the recent rains from Isaac the turnips are doing terrific! They are turnip-rrific! Turnip-tastic!   These turnips are growing lik...

Big Empty Heads

I dunno about you but I've just about had it with this incredibly long and incredibly hot summer. Sheesh! At present its over 90*. Again...