Sometimes you just need pie for breakfast. Pie used to be a traditional homestead breakfast food, back before it became such a sweet treat. Take away 80% of the sugar…
The Best Way To Remove Bees Wax
Working with bees wax can be a sticky mess, leaving your kitchen and tools completely covered and potentially clogging your sink drain. Here are two things crutial to understanding bees…
Brew Better Beer – Book Review
After you get past the distinction between extract brewers and all grain brewers, home brewers tend to fall into two philosophical camps: Religious Recipe Followers or the Just Wing It…
Strawberry Cream Cheese Coffee Cake
Strawberries arrived a bit early in the Northeast this year, and they’re almost gone. There’s still enough time for a few more tasty strawberry recipes. This coffee cake is just…
Bald Faced Hornets: Know Thine Enemy
Who is first against the wall when the revolution comes? For us, it’s these guys. Bald Faced Hornets. I’d rather face a bear, or a rabid raccoon. You have a…
Preparing For a Warmer Wetter Northeast
Nine days into June and we’ve already had our second heavy rainfall event. Our first was 4 inches in 48 hours, and after a few days off and 90+ degree…
Preventing Winter Rodent Damage To Fruit Trees
We learned a lesson about rodents and fruit trees the hard way this winter. We’d never had this problem before, but apparently we’d never had the right conditions for it…
Spring Honey Harvest
If everything goes well, spring is not usually when you harvest honey. When we picked up our hive last spring, we didn’t expect a harvest until Fall 2015 at the…
Overwintering Pigs
This year was our first year overwintering large mammals. Namely, two very snugly pigs: Tiny and Blackberry. In Vermont this time of year water is a perpetual challenge. While the…
Types and Breeds of Farm Animals – Book Review
Types and Breeds of Farm Animals Country Life Education Series Charles Plumb Published By Gin & Company, 1906 Written in 1906, “Types and Breeds of Farm Animals” provides a great…