Firesign Farm

Twenty years ago, we got married outside the Virginia City Courthouse. It was basically an elopement. I didn't really want a big wedding...

Cider is said to ferment vigorously . There are stories about people finding the sticky stuff spattered across the walls, or bubbled over fl...

Many, many years ago, I took a trip to rural Iowa (where the pigs each had a patio) with a native farm boy. It was in the fall, cider pressi...

Yesterday, I got seven and a half pounds of cabbage, from ones that split and heads too little to store, shredded, salted, and packed into a...

I spent yesterday morning at the Muscle Powered bicycle valet for our last Farmers' Market of the year. The Market organizers would like...

Years ago, a new neighbor called to me over the fence in mid-October. "You gave us a bit of a start last night," she said. "W...

When I got up this morning, the barometer had dropped, big-time. By mid-morning the wind had come up so badly I could hardly see across the ...

After the Labor Day weekend, lots of our summer tourists head back home to get the kids back in school, not to be seen again until Christmas...

I had a day to myself with no outside commitments today. A couple of weeks ago, I'd changed my decor over to fall colors (my favorites),...

I got a good peach crop this year, and set aside 15 pounds to make a batch of salsa. I'm just about out of roasted and peeled chiles fro...

Two weeks ago, while shutting the poultry in for the night, I realized two hens were missing. Neither Penny Redstar nor Junior were in the c...

I love tree-ripened peaches. My dad planted a couple of peach trees when I was a kid, and I was thereafter spoiled for supermarket peaches. ...

I've been soooo busy. With the days getting shorter and the nights chillier, the garden and orchard are crying out for attention. Even t...

After camping last week, it's nice spending a quiet holiday weekend close to home. I put my Nevada and American flags out on the deck ra...

Miss me? I've been camping - no electricity, no computer, no television. We spent the past week on the west shore of Lake Tahoe, only 40...

I don't like bathroom rugs with the rubberized non-slip stuff on the bottom. My bathroom isn't big enough to get up to slipping spee...

Dang! Usually I don't have to worry about my cabbages splitting until mid-September. They do just fine on their every-third-day soaker h...

Do you find yourself stalking every laden fruit tree in your entire neighborhood? Do you need a flatbed truck to get your Farmers Market pur...

So, my canning season has started. I don't get fruit crops every year, depending on how our late Spring frosts hit, but this year have v...

Oh, how wonderful! A peaceful, quiet start to the day once again. In addition to our chickens, we also have three guinea fowl: Grey, a feral...