Tuesday, September 15, 2026
beans and watermelon seeds

Seed starting containers and homemade potting medium can be made with just a few supplies.

Is anyone else watching "The Incredible Dr. Pol," televised on National Geographic channels? It's become columnist Judie Sutherland's winter treat.

The question smart fishermen ask about lake ice being safe or not has no definitive answer.

The low whimpering and muffled whining heard in farm country this month are not the gripes and grunts of corn and soybean growers trudging through 2015's purgatory of under-$4 corn and less-than-$10 beans.

Sea gulls are not limited to sea shores.

It's the dead of winter and a balmy -3 degrees here. This of course coincides perfectly with the need to start shopping for prom dresses to be worn in May.

Regardless of what those groundhogs had to say, spring arrives March 20.

Winter cold and all the problems continue.
boer goats

Goats are superior land managers; they will clear overgrown areas of crop and pasture of unwanted vegetation, overbearing brush and invasive plants.

It may be mid-winter, but the nesting season for birds is underway. Great horned owls and bald eagles are already incubating eggs. Smaller songbirds wait...