I love gardening, and I love cooking. Using fresh veggies straight from the garden is so satisfying to me. But, to be honest, nothing beats freshly cut herbs straight from the garden to put on your food. Nothing. The smell, quality and flavor of herbs straight from your backyard cannot be beat. There’s nothing fresher,…
10 Vegetables to Plant in Your Spring Garden
Spring, I anxiously await its arrival every year. After a long winter season stuck indoors, fighting with frozen water, and trying to keep the flock alive, it’s a welcome relief. While stuck inside during the cold, winter months I often plan our garden. And, of course, the spring garden is the first of those plans….
Easy Pan Fried Deer Heart Recipe
This easy pan fried deer heart recipe makes delicious use of a very underutilized meat from your harvest. Flavorful, easy to prepare and a great use of a tasty meat. I always find it interesting when we look back into our past about all of the meat that did not go to waste from an animal. Be…
When Your Duck is Frozen to the Ground
It’s so cold out. Colder than it has been in decades, they say. They’re cancelling schools, people can’t get their cars to start. And I’m over here trying to stay warm, keep my birds, rabbit, and dog happy and comfortable, keep them in water that doesn’t instantly turn into a block of ice and not…
Waste Not… Want Not
There’s a lot that goes in to running a blog. There’s ways to get traffic, grow, etc. And in the midst of all of this “how to do it right” sometimes one loses sight of why they do this blogging thing. Sometimes one forgets to share the behind the scenes stuff that really matters and makes a…
