The winter garden is going well. This year we’ve planted lettuce, spinach, kale, carrots, beets, broccoli, cabbage and lots of turnips. I wish the beets and broccoli were doing better, but everything else is doing great. It’s nice how minimal the pest pressure is in fall/winter gardening. We’ve had temperatures down in the mid 20’s […]
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My mother wanted a couple of sidewalks built at their place. We used stone that my brother got from his work. Ben, Brent, my dad and I worked part of the day and made good progress. It still needs some leveling out before mortar is added to set the stones permanently, but we have had
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We’ve had compost bins since April, 2014, but we’ve done several improvements since then. Here is what the original 3 bins looked like. The original compost bins worked great, but the sawdust and wheat straw cover material wasn’t protected from rain. The finished compost bins. A few of the improvements made are: * A roof
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