High Prairie Homestead

This year was my first year making pickles.  I've never had enough cucumbers to make into pickles, but the greenhouse really performe...

It's forecasted to get down into the 30's at night this week, so I needed to harvest all the remaining produce out in the garden.  I...

One of the joys of being a homeowner is doing maintenance.  When we first bought the house we knew that the original owners had removed a sk...

I saved the skins and seeds from making sauce to dehydrate to make powder.  Why powder?  Well, to add to soups or stews to give it a litt...

I picked a peck of pickled p....wait, I picked a ton of tomatoes, well, not a ton, but about 20 pounds.   Not bad for the first picking.  ...

I had both of our jerseys artificially inseminated last month and now it's time to pregnancy check them.  I have options.  The first is ...

The last few years, I've tried growing tomatoes in the greenhouse, but it never works out, the plants get gargantuan, take over the whol...