FarmerJ | June 30, 2009
I’ve been doing some more reading in How To Shovel Manure ~ the book gifted to me by my Darling Husbie. After giggling like a little girl over that spring garden chapter, I was anxious to see what Gwen Petersen had to say about Basic Farm and Ranch Attitudes (A Ranch Is a Ranch Is [...]
FarmerJ | June 29, 2009
Our broccoli babies are growing quite nicely! The main broccoli heads are large enough to harvest, and the plants are becoming loaded with the smaller secondary broccoli ‘shoots.’ We harvested our first two heads Thursday morning ~ amounting to just over a pound ~ and oh, how delicious it was! Broccoli purchased from the store [...]
FarmerJ | June 27, 2009
Imagine our horror when it was brought to our attention this was happening to Darling Husbie’s shop while we sat upstairs on the other end of the house completely unaware while eating our dinner. This was the scene at the farmstead Thursday evening about 8:00 p.m. One of the many strange, ironic things about this [...]
FarmerJ | June 23, 2009
The other morning while I was working on mulching the tomato plants in the large plot, Darling Husbie and Son #2 joined me. They quickly joined in the efforts to rip up some of those pesky weeds, bend or break others, and cover them with a thick layer of old alfalfa. The entire large plot [...]
FarmerJ | June 22, 2009
Welcome to the Family Battle Book section ~ a source dedicated to exploring one method of organizing your family’s important documents. Once your Family Battle Book is completed, you will not only have peace of mind knowing all of your crucial information is in one location, you will be better equipped to focus on the [...]
FarmerJ | June 20, 2009
Ummmm…what is my Darling Husbie trying to tell me? We’ve talked about getting a few different farm-type animals one time or another, but we’ve also talked ourselves out of it at this juncture in our adventures in farmsteading. Was this his way of telling me I’d better get some tall rubber boots? Nah. This was [...]
FarmerJ | June 19, 2009
Literally. Wednesday, 17 July we were witness to an amazing light show put on by Mother Nature. We had plenty of time to make the popcorn and order front row seats, as NOAA’s National Weather Service issed a tornado watch as early as 12:45 p.m. It was also the first time Darling Husbie and I [...]
FarmerJ | June 19, 2009
Spring has come and gone ~ it seems it disappeared just as quickly as it arrived. The appearance of the Prairie Farmstead has changed a lot since spring. Everything is green and plush…and wet. The culprit? Storms like the one depicted in the header photo! A few weeks ago, I was beginning to be concerned [...]
FarmerJ | June 14, 2009
We’ve expanded our blog page to include a special section for our garden pages. You can access this section by clicking on the Glorious Gardens link in the menu bar under the main header photo, or you can access any particular page in this section by using the links in the right column. The posts [...]
FarmerJ | June 12, 2009
…on a toad. Yes, a toad. Our Lord has a marvelous sense of humor! Most of you know by now of the farmstead gardening project we’ve taken on this summer. I’ve been trying diligently to get all the plants and seeds into the ground, but the rain has moved in and doesn’t seem to want [...]
