We have decided to let this blog go inactive, but hope that it continues to be a valuable archive of our homesteading experiences.  Thank yo...

All of my fermenting vegetables got me thinking... I love sourdough bread, but I've been hesitant to start up a sourdough starter, wi...

Just discovered a new, to me, but 20 years grown, resource for sustainable livestock management, Livestock Research for Rural Development , ...

I'm inevitably prone to catching the knitting fever this time of year.  It's the crisp temperatures and the adding of layers... what...

I'd like to draw attention to an organization, the Organic Seed Alliance , not because it's new, but because they have been doing so...

by (the elusive) Beringian Fritillary This week we helped a local farmer with his carrot harvest. He practices Integrated Pest Management, a...

Well, I suppose we're not totally out of things to blog about, on the homefront... Since we will be leaving the farm in the spring, and ...

The garden is all but finished for the year, just a lonely row of cabbages, kales and Brussels sprouts, along with a patch of frost hardy pa...

I rarely enjoy the task of removing tomato skins, and sometimes prefer to leave them, for certain things, such as last week's chutney, w...