In the Kitchen I decided to try and “juice” a bunch of apples to get apple cider to make hard cider.  I bought a masticating juicer.  There are 2 types…

In the Wetzel House This is going to be a long and honest post about the “Good” and the “Bad” of what has been going on in the Wetzel household…

Beekeeping It’s time to get the beehives ready for winter.  I have two different hives – a top bar hive and a (traditional) langstroth hive.  I have been checking the…

In the Garden I have been wanting to start a mushroom patch in our garden for a while.  I had heard about growing King Stropharia mushrooms in a podcast a…

Food Forest I started a food forest along the fence back behind the garden.  A food garden/forest as defined by Wikipedia is: a low-maintenance sustainable plant-based food production and agroforestry…

In the Garden Our first big garden and there were lots of lessons learned: The wind can do more damage than the cold/hot temperatures.  I didn’t realize how damaging the wind…

In the Garden I decided to harvest my potatoes yesterday.  The potatoes were grown in the hay bales and we have been stealing some out of the bales as we…

In the Garden Right outside my kitchen, I have planted an herb/pollinator garden.  I have my bee waterer located in here.  I took a quick video of the herb garden…

In the Garden I would like to have lots of raised beds in the garden area.  However, it is expensive to purchase all the wood and hardware cloth.  So, I…

In the Garden I have the perfect set up for doing rainwater harvesting.  For some reason, there are multiple downspouts on our home and garage (probably our previous homes had…