As the song goes, "Any way the wind blows, doesn't really matter to me..." but it does matter. To me, at least. Which is why we planted a windbreak along the back fence! We decided to go with fast growing hybrid willows, which I talked about a little in my last post, but I thought …
You wouldn't think here in Idaho we would get the best homesteading tips from a bloke in Australia, but we spent all day Saturday watching one of our favorite You Tubers, Mark from Self Sufficient Me, while the wind terrorized the valley again. As usual, we learned a ton of useful information and at the …
I wanted to do a little experimenting with growing onions from onions this year so rather than storing them properly, I decided to see what would happen if I encouraged a few to sprout by putting them in baskets in the windowsill. Needless to say, I wasn't disappointed! One has already begun to sprout and …
I love flowers of all kinds but my absolute favorite are the wildflowers. There's just something special about the way nature arranges them, especially here in the Rocky Mountains. We are just a few weeks away from peak wildflower season in Yellowstone and I can hardly wait! Honestly, couldn't you just die happy here, among …
I sincerely hope that everyone had as beautiful a holiday as we did here in SE Idaho. Believe it or not, this was the first Easter weekend for years that we didn't have bad weather. Either it's been cloudy, windy, rainy or snowing, or a combination of all of the above. Not this year, though! …
