Follow me Here’s a puzzlement for you, gentle reader: if you are a farmer (raising hand) or a serious gardener (same) and you spend self-indulgent (ha) amounts of time during…
Read moreQuick Veggie Stir-Fry Recipe & Back-to-Schoolishness
“So Long, Summer” Ratatouille: Queen of the Fall Garden Melange
Follow me Edited just for you in September 2019, though the pictures of little Mack are so cute that I left them alone. 🙂 Ratatouille has so many things going…
Read more7 Super Cool Reasons to Visit a Supervolcano: Yellowstone Nat’l Park
Follow me Bryan, Mack and I took a week off from the farm, the chickens and the weeds and went camping in Yellowstone National Park. It was wonderful. *siigh* It…
Read moreFleeting Days of Rhubarb-Cherry Bars . . .
Follow me Our summer turned from delight–halcyon days of sweetness, early fruit, daily wonders and lush growth brought on by heavy (too heavy, but oh well) rainfall–to misery. “Excessive heat…
Read moreSheet Mulching = Hope for the Beleaguered Prairie Person
Follow me The Situation at Hand When we moved out to our little acreage (nearly twenty years ago), I was struck by the lush prairie grasses that grew so well…
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