We planted oats on a long-fallow patch this spring.  The neighbor was kind enough to plow the sod, then I tilled it and used a simple shoulder-slung broadcaster to spread…View post

Why do our ducks (some brown domestic breed) dig holes in the ground beside the water tub using their bills?  The holes are about the diameter of a pop can…View post

Whenever we have a dead battery around this place, the afflicted vehicle always seems to be wedged in some far corner of the shed or nose-first inside the garage, and…View post

Yesterday I Twittered (and Facebooked) that I was boiling apples in order to get the pigs to eat them.  Several folks wondered how much it was costing to boil apples…View post

For the last couple of weeks we moved the meat chickens to the old granary.  Set up an outside run to they could get air and some grass during the…View post