If you read any "What I Wish I Would Have Known" articles written by modern homesteader types, one of the first items on their lis...

As the harvest/preserving season wraps up for the 2013 season, I organized the cellar and freezer and took stock of how much food we’...

Ah, what a nice break it's been from blogging! With so much to do, and so little time, writing our little stories has been pushed to the...

Some days, it's hard to tell the difference between what is work and what is play. Take digging potatoes, for instance. Surely smil...

I don't whine very often. Or, well, I try not to. I love having a blog filled with cheerfulness and stories of happy and satisfying thin...

I'm not a flower gardener. I have a few plants in a little flower garden, more for the sake of my beauty-loving five year old (who is ve...

I didn't have the pleasure of tasting fresh beets until I grew them in my own garden. Apparently not a lot of people buy and cook ...

I've never grown cabbage before. Mostly because it takes up more space than what I had readily available in my garden in The Big C...

 I haven't done much blogging or photographing of the garden this year. This is mostly because I'm disappointed in myself for not ...

I did a lot of daydreaming about our garden here when we first moved in. It involved lush, gorgeous plants, rich, nearly-black soil, and no ...

"Girls, I'll be right back, gonna run out to the garden to get some food for dinner." Oh man, I was starting to feel like I ...

Yikes, I haven't blogged in forever. I blame it on our internet service. We have satellite internet here in the Tiny Little Town, and I ...

It's Garden to Table Challenge day again! Wow, where did that week go? I wish I could tell you that I've got some great harvest to ...

Pizza is a standard at our house - Saturday night dinners alternate between spaghetti and pizza. Everyone likes them both, and it seems to b...

Each year on our anniversary, I give my husband a gift based on the traditional anniversary gift list. This year, the traditional gift was ...

A gift of toys speaks loudly to children, doesn't it? I'm not one to buy my kids a lot of new toys. Not because I want them to ...

My garden kind of sucked this year. Well, that's not entirely true. We did at least grow enough vegetables to keep us well fed through t...

Blogging trips is so hard to do - we do so many things I want to write about, and take hundreds of pictures, and sorting through it all and ...