What A Deal!
Here’s a way to get the best deal on gardening supplies. Be the last person to plant your garden!
Garden Plant Deals
An Easy 1927 Recipe
Dates Were the Avocados of the 1920’s
I’m one of these people who read cookbooks for fun. When reading my 1927 copy of the Sioux City/Omaha Fontenelle Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star Cookbook, I quickly came to a few conclusions.
Lila’s April Poetry
Lila gives us two poems written in different decades that encourage us all.
Big Yield and No Weeding Gardening
Between the years of Covid and expanding inflation, you may be considering gardening. Thoughts of having to tend plants coupled with additional thoughts of backbreaking weeding and constant watering may have caused you to stop your gardening considerations.
Well, I have exciting news for you! We have a productive garden and we NEVER pull weeds or water much.
Inflation Fighting Main Dishes
Holy cats! I’m sure you’ve noticed inflation is getting up there. I hope you aren’t in the market for a rental car, a new vehicle, gas or food.
You may not need anything to do with transportation, but you do have to eat. So here are some inflation relief recipes to help you out!
Farm Work in Cold Weather
Be Careful What You Wish For
As we start a new year, we sometimes make resolutions and wishes when we don’t have proper foresight.
“Be careful what you wish for,” is from the Aesop Fable, The Old Man and Death.
Lila wrote a 23 word poem at age 89 that addresses this thought.
Apple Bread
Everyone has a few apples in their refrigerator. This Apple Bread recipe is a lower sugar dessert that can use up those apples in the back of your refrigerator that are well past their prime. This 1950’s recipe is from a farm magazine from many years ago. It presents well, and is sure to be a great after school snack or a Christmas gift to replace that fruit cake no one cares to eat!
Pumpkin Roll
This Pumpkin Roll recipe is classic. Anytime I am assigned to bring a desert to an event, I will bring the Pumpkin Roll. Christmas party? Pumpkin Roll. Easter? Pumpkin Roll. July 4th? Pumpkin Roll. And I always come home with an empty plate.
Why Crop Rotation Works
Iowa is known for corn. US state maps have corn as an image for Iowa. If you’ve ever taken a drive through Iowa, you will see cornfields as far as the eye can see. Corn upon corn upon corn.
So why did we plant most of our farm in soybeans this year?