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...

My how the garden grows! Rainbow after a thunder shower only 10 days ago... The view from the kitchen table this morning. There's a lot ...

That's the trick around here, in a humid climate there are short weather windows. The best quality hay, and the highest protein hay, is...

Good planning, preparation and preventative measures are the best insurance of good health and success in the garden and in the barn. But, e...

We read all the books and heard all the stories about how notorious goats are at getting out of fences, and into gardens. We were planning ...

Our pastures are pretty tired. Before we started renting, they had been cut for hay, but not grazed or amended, for 20 years. The last time ...

Coming out of winter, and into the physical work of preparing ground, planting and weeding in the spring garden, we use muscles that lay dor...

Why keep records: I began keeping milking records in the summer of 2005, when we bought our first Jersey cow. A few home dairying books had ...

It is almost impossible to equate the products from our homestead to the purchased "equivalent", especially when it comes to food....

2009 is going to be a rough year for most, I hope that it draws together communities and families, to take care of each other. I hope it cl...

For a bit more motivation on the Ditch the Fridge Challenge , I will tell you all of the wonderful uses we have found for our defunct fridge...

We do the best we can to live according to our conscience, here on our homestead. And living within limited means dictates some of our less...

This is what we get these days. We no longer get showers. When it rains, it really rains. Twice we have gotten a wheelbarrow of water in 24...

It is time to start this year's batch of apple cider vinegar. We used up the first harvest of early, unbruised apples for drying and pre...