As it turns out, we have a very prolific crab apple tree in our front yard.  It has approximately one bazillion crab apples on it.  That cre...

A question: what is the best part of coming home to one's parents' house after being away for a while? An answer: mom's cooking!...

At our homestead, we have three places for chickens to hang out, depending on the circumstances.  We have the row cover chicken tractor , wh...

There are lots of ways to raise chickens in one's backyard: free ranging, rotational pasturing, tractoring, etc.  Meat breeds tend to ea...

Ok, kids, gather 'round.  We've got a pretty good strata recipe for you this month.  It's partly inspired by end-of-summer hambu...

Rhubarb is one of the first plants up in the spring, with it's beefy red stalks ready to eat by the time the first strawberries are comi...

Last Thursday we had the first frost warning of the year, and at slightly higher elevations, there was snow!  In September!  Fortunately, we...