While our garden was quite productive last year, it got off to a rather difficult start. I started our leeks, tomatoes and celery in a soil ...

We've had a spell of warm days, with more of the same predicted in the coming week. I've been drawn out to the garden. Pruning raspb...

Imagine my surprise when I saw this sack hanging between the legs of the steer we castrated months ago. What? To be fair, Garth and I had b...

One of the defining characteristics of reading or writing fiction, at least in the vast majority of cases, is the strange int...

My mother recommended the book Eating Animals several times over the past few months. I had been aware of the book when it was published, b...

In the middle of this, my second winter tending chickens, I've been reflecting on a few changes made since last year that have offered m...

It's winter. At least it seems that way sometimes. Today it's nearing 42 F. and drizzling, with strong gusts from the South. Yesterd...