Our Small Farm in the Woods

     In an effort to both save money on groceries lately (due to some party planning expenses for Miss D's upcoming birthday celebrati...

   We picked some of the squashes this weekend and stored them in the root cellar. Even with all that we picked there is still about a doz...

   With less than a month to go before the pigs go to the butcher, we decided to try to measure them and determine how much they weigh. Wh...

   I took the potato barrel apart today hoping to find a bucket worth of potatoes, but sadly only found a few. The idea is that as the pot...

   In an effort to save money and not buy seeds next year we have started saving our seeds for next year. We also think it's kind of coo...

   We planted 40 tomato plants this year, with about half of them being plum tomatoes. We plan to make salsa and other things out of them,...

   We finally harvested the potatoes this week. We let the plants die back and waited two weeks before digging them up. It was a family af...