In the interest of full disclosure, we admit that we kind of dropped the ball on our October eggnog recipe.  We meant to celebrate Nationa...

When Mom and Dad came to visit the other weekend, they brought us a wonderful housewarming gift: venison!  It will warm the house when we ...

This is the time of year when many folks who don't have heated greenhouses (including us) are trying hard to eke out the last garden-fre...

One thing that's been on our minds lately as our chickens rapidly approach the age at which they are released into our small, electrical...

A couple weeks ago, we noted that one of our chickens was having balance problems, but appeared otherwise healthy.  We posted our solution ...

NOTE: This is a long post and is way too technical at times.  We should have probably broken it up into two posts--how to render lard/tal...