Homesteading Blog

  July is over, and it has been a good month on the farm.  The weather has been hot, with above average temps near 100 degrees, and, as i...

There is no other way to say it; the cherries were a lot of work.  For nearly three weeks we picked, dried and froze for hours, gathering we...

 As promised our cherries came in hugely this year.  Oh, did they ever.  It is fair to say we are awash in them.  Virtually all of the ...

Amount a month ago one of our hens went broody and started sitting full-time on a clutch of four eggs. Since we are having trouble with our ...

This spring in southern Idaho has been quite different from last spring.  Last spring we had a cold snap in April but then it got hot quickl...

As we have noted a few times before, last year our fruit trees suffered profoundly from a late hard freeze and high winds that killed the bu...

Spring is moving along nicely.  The weather is getting pretty warm (65-75) in the daytime, but due to our high desert location, we have to w...