We’re back now from a one-week stay at our family’s cabin on Lake Martin. The good news is that the lake was quiet and beautiful immediately following the big 4th of July weekend, after nearly everyone had returned home. The bad news is that we don’t feel rested at all; […]
We are eagerly awaiting the celebration tomorrow of Independence Day, when we Americans mark the fateful decision of a handful of men 238 years ago to sever the connection between the colonies in the new world and Mother England.
The days are getting shorter now, but they’re plenty long, and the continuing pattern of afternoon showers is keeping everything damp.
We’ve never been big fans of conventional potatoes; we’re not excited about the carbs, and we’ve always preferred sweet potatoes. But if you call yourself a reasonably proficient grower of your own food, you ought to be able to grow potatoes, don’t you think?
We’re at that stage with chickens where each new day brings more knowledge, experience, and savvy. This week we had the chance to visit with Dr Joseph B Hess, a professor in the Auburn University Poultry Science Department.
A good pair of scissors is a joy. The ones I inherited from my mother were just that, and they cut wonderfully. That is, they cut wonderfully until I left them outside on the trellis for more than a year.
From the cast aluminum pot we got from Amanda’s great aunt that we use for every soup we make to the knowledge about passive solar energy that keeps us comfortable year round, and for hundreds of other legacies in between, we stand on the shoulders of the giants who have […]
We should have planted the pecans back in January. February at the latest. Yet here we are at the end of May and they’re not yet in the ground. Lord have mercy. Christ have mercy. Lord have mercy.
Those who attended our workshop at the Wetumpka Public Library had some great questions after our talk, so we thought we would focus on the Q&A this week.
The two of us had a nice visit Tuesday night of this week with the patrons of the Wetumpka Public Library. We talked about what you can still plant in a vegetable garden in central Alabama.
