School’s out for another year and the kids are tugging at your sleeves. “Mom, what’s there to do?” Without camp, without after school sports, and with no interest in digging along side you in the garden, children are wondering what to do and, for at least part of the day, need some structured activity. Sadly, [read the rest...]
Lawn tractors and mowers as well as garden tillers (for small spacers) are easy on your budget and cut your workload down to a manageable size when you live in the country. But if you have a lot of land to plow, till and plant, and you haven’t invested in a tractor just yet, don’t [read the rest...]
I’ve had a lot of trouble in the past with the theories and the costs of mosquito control systems. Not to mention the fact that I’ve never been entirely convinced of their effectiveness. However, living in ‘bug country’, watching my animals huddle in the barn on the worst of days, and being completely fed up [read the rest...]
It’s Time Then, to Learn to Make Syrup! If you have a woodlot on your property with a few maple trees, let’s call it a personal sugar bush and get you into the age-old tradition of making your own delicious syrup. Collecting sap from a maple sugar bush and rendering down into syrup is a [read the rest...]
Once you have collected sap from your own sugar bush, you are ready to begin making maple syrup. Select your spot to create an outdoor fire pit — alternatively a shed with a heat source. Be warned however, if you’re making syrup inside a shed, sap evaporation will result in a sticky film on walls, [read the rest...]
I understand that bugs are essential to the eco-system, but do we truly need this many? In the country, and of course depending on where you live, bugs that bite and sting both people and farm animals are getting to be a serious problem! We’ve got West Nile Virus to deal with but even without [read the rest...]
My favorite reason for having and building bat houses is for insect control, but there are other reasons for attracting bats onto your property. First and foremost, bats are nature’s secret weapon to control the insects that are annoying or dangerous to humans. This is especially true of one of their favorite meals – mosquitoes! [read the rest...]
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