Around the Homestead A couple of months ago, I taught Joshua how to clean the bathroom!  Now, it is his duty to do each weekend (I even made a YouTube…

Winter Activities Since things are always slower for a farmer in the winter, I have decided to resume my “couponing”.  Not sure if that is really a verb; anyway, 4…

In the Garden Plans are moving ahead with the 3 Sister’s Garden,  We put down a layer of compost.  It is 12 feet by 12 feet big.  Then, we placed…

In the Kitchen Last week, Mark and I were out for a walk and saw this… So, we did!  I took them home and made apple pie jam and apple…

At the Wetzel residence: Just a quick update today.  We are going to keep an eye to the sky and watch the super moon eclipse tonight.  I started making moon…

Latah County Fair! The fair is ending today.  Henry said he liked this chicken.  It is a Buff Orpington.  It is beautiful and a cold hardy breed.  It is not…

Just some generic ramblings this week about diversity… When I went out to harvest my sunflowers this past summer, there was a LOT of diversity.  I did plant 8 different…

Garden Update I pulled up the last of the sunflowers this past week.  Thanks again to Joe Raiden for helping me with that task,  It went easier this week…probably due…

Farmer’s Market Update Last week, I went through a cost analysis of the sunflowers/jams at Market.  I realized this past week that I left out one HUMONGOUS factor…Allan Family Farm…

…but, after I ran the numbers, we were in the red $87.93.  All the enterprises made money but it was the purchase of the table, canopy and sand bags that…