Choosing your first dairy cow is a bit like choosing a husband.I think bringing home Miss Bessie is a lot like that.

Read Estate agents know the key to selling rural property is the listing of a pond or potential pond sites. As a homesteader, we want a...

Measuring and Grading Timber – A Master Class Have you ever had a child challenge you to a new game he had created. As you play, you...

My family has a long history of wild children. My aunt was one. I have suspicions about my grandfather. These are the kids who fidget at...

In Part 1 of Improving Your Woodlot, I wrote about identifying and killing low quality species, low quality formed trees and diseased and...

Let’s use this event as a trial run. Now you know what an EOTW event can look like and how crazy people get (for toilet paper!!!), don’t be

Improving Your Woodlot A Master Class Part 1 With the present economic uncertainty what can you do to protect your investments,...

Homesteading on Marginal Land We have lived on our homestead for 16 years. It was rough when we bought it. 500 acres of abandoned strip...

As a homesteader, I believe we own our property and the trees that grow there. However, in many communities, there are regulations and res

Like most folks, I am stuck around the house. I didn’t realize how often I went shopping, even a quick stop at the local dollar store, to...

Pruning an Old Apple Tree Coronavirus 19 Public Panic! Self and Government Quarantine What am I going to do for the next 14 days? Wow! As...

Building Your Homestead Community Early this week I noticed one of our lambs wasn’t putting on weight and was listless. I checked out...

Chain Saws, Part 3 Safety and Operations In the movie, ‘Dirty Harry’, Clint Eastwood, who plays Harry, does a narration about the...

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As a Natural Resources/Vo-Ag teacher since 1971, my school program usually had at least 3 chainsaws each year.

Chain Saws Part 2 Maintenance There will be two weeks on this topic. It is just too big to put all the information in one blog post. As home

The cold wet weather continues. We had a teaser day of Spring on Monday, but got slammed again on Tuesday. It’s Ohio…. what can we expect? O

As a maple syrup producer, it is time to prepare to tap the trees. We finally got that cold snap and tapping can begin anytime in the next 4

It is late January and I am getting restless. The days are just a little bit longer, the sun is losing that watery, wintery, white hue,...

This is the first part of a four-part series on selection and use of a chain saw. As a Vo-Ag/Natural Resources instructor I have taught...