Welcome foothillsfire . We love the grouse hunting, and eating here too!
We eat a lot of wild food year round, but most of our non-meat items are from our gardens. [ATTACH] This is what I am currently foraging until...
For the dead of winter I have a sugar maple, paper birch, black ash, mulberry, black locust, and red elm on the docket. This a wider variety than...
Good morning. Just rolled in from a work weekend up north. Got the sauna stove hooked up and running in the God given 7 hour window between...
Got a few more goodies from my gardens up north. I was busy hooking up my sauna stove so didn’t have time to do much related to gardening....
The Ojibwa on the Reservation I worked on had a lot of sayings and signs to predict the coming winter, but my favorite was: “You can tell how cold...
[ATTACH] I have these morning glories from past year’s seeds that I beat back early in the season, then let a few vines grow into late summer....
Did another 10 quarts of spaghetti/tomato sauce today. I am up to 30, shooting for 60 to meet our needs for a year. [ATTACH] It is a simple...
Wow there are some really nice old cars and trucks on this thread. I like watching this young man wrenching on his rusty old 318 Dodge Ramcharger...
I just pulled the trigger on 1.5 cord of unseasoned sugar maple for $250 a cord delivered. I don’t have this wood on our land and it only grows in...
Good morning. 50s here after light rains yesterday. Apples are getting good, a few leaves turning and falling here and there, and the weather is...
We just rolled from the long weekend. My wife and I got a lot done from building our sauna, to wood stacking, to gardening, and a little relaxing...
[ATTACH] Cabin garden carrot bed with deer protection over the top. [ATTACH] We were gone from our cabin garden for 3 weeks and found some giants....
[ATTACH] Here are some of my pickled beets from yesterday.
[ATTACH] Honey Crisp. Considering never having sprayed my trees, they don’t look too bad. [ATTACH] Newest apple tree. This is Liberty variety....
Good Morning. Getting things ready for canning pickled beets. Tomorrow will be a day for canning more tomato sauce. Nothing else specific planned....
I will save you some. When the time comes to send them, I will let you know.
Good morning. Been a wet week here. We needed the rain. Planning on making more tomato sauce and cucumber pickles today.
Thanks eatonpcat . The variety of live food we can grow and can eat within minutes of being harvested can’t be bought.
[ATTACH] Asparagus super crown [ATTACH] Chocolate Cherry Tomatoes. These are very tasty, resistant to splitting, and very prolific producers....
