Woo-hoo! Our 50th podcast. And how fitting that we use it to acknowledge humbly how little we know about this whole “subsistence farming” gig. We had nice visits this week with a young farmer and an old one, and learned much from each of them.

It may be fall on the calendar, but those voracious grasshoppers think it’s still summertime, and they’re eating everything we plant. The row cover is the only thing saving our fall veg.

Are you tired of hearing of hearing about the sunn hemp growing on the east half of Veg Hill? Sorry, we’re not, because we know what a full season of this delightful legume can mean to the fertility of our soil.

Composting isn’t nearly as complicated as it seems when you read about it, and everybody should be composting, especially those who don’t have a garden.

Composting works. That’s really all people need to know about it. Why is it that we keep trying to make it so scary and complicated?

Our pear preserves are not like the ones we had growing up. They’re not as sweet, and frankly not as pretty. But they seem right for us.

Those cages we placed on our fruit trees back in February have done their job well. As far as we know, the deer have more or less left them alone. I say “more or less” because we haven’t seen much deer damage, although we did find a suspicious turd in […]

We were up late last night and we have a big mess to clean up, but we got the pear preserves finished! We cut up about 50 pears, and we have 9 pints and 22 half pints of preserves to show for it.

It started simply enough, with Amanda suggesting that we start using the kettle to boil water for my tea. My bride is a lover of all things British, and our Russell Hobbs electric kettle gives her a warm, fuzzy feeling because it’s so similar to the ones we have seen […]

It’s still weeks away, but we can already begin to sense how near fall is on brisk mornings, and the days are now no longer so oppressively hot.