Earlier this spring, we decided we should get our dirt tested.  We carefully selected a lab and read through their sampling instructions.  T...

The weather was pretty nice this week--lots more signs of spring (including the calendar), and some progress on our goals for the year.  Yay...

We found out the other weekend that our bees didn't survive the last cold snap.  Actually, on opening up the hive, it looked like they h...

We skipped our HAP post last week because there wasn't too much to report on, other than the potato starch exper...

There are lots of uses for starch around the homestead: thickening stew or pie filling, making gravy, making edible glue (Katie says, "...

This time of year is prime time for garden planning around these parts.  As we were thinking about what we might want to grow this year, w...

It's that time again: time to pass some of our rabid electronic information consumption on to you (rabid referring to the consumption, n...