Search results

French sorrel is a wonderful early spring and summer herb/leaf. It's sour tang is great in sauces and a bit of the tender new leaves adds sparkle to spring salads. Best of all, it's a tremendously reliable perennial even in harsh environments such as ours in Iowa, with minus 20 degree winter days.

We have two llamas that we got because, 1) "they are adorable and nerdy" and 2) to protect the chickens from coyotes. I think they have done a good job with the coyote problem. However, they don't seem to have helped with the predatory owls, raccoons or stray cats. Llamas, by the way, unless...

My daughter pasteurizes all the milk she uses, for two reasons. She has young children and doesn't want to risk challenging their immune systems with raw milk. Number two, our milking cow is a BLV carrier (as are a high proportion of dairy cows in the US, btw). There is a suggestion that BLV can...

We started losing a chicken or two each night last year and my son in law set up a night remote recording camera outside the coop. Sure enough, a raccoon was seen opening the cover on the nesting boxes. Unbelievably, we were able to catch that raccoon with a live trap the next night. We...