Next Door Laura

Aren't we lucky?  We get to enjoy the bounty of harvesttime in the Midwest. These guys and pal know it. They are riding high and li...

Just wanted to show you some nice looking seed packets. 1933 prices.  Happy harvesting!

Sweating, and fondly remembering cooler, okay, colder, days. Winter 2019 was incredible.  And more incredible.  And before it was al...

We have thought for a long time that it would be great to host a Little Free Library. Fittingly, as the first LFL was built by a son for his...

This is what half of a a socially distanced line for peaches looks like. It wound around the parking lot in a giant U. People wore masks an...

One thing we could do well, and safely, while isolating was get out in nature  and forage our little hearts out. In this case some generous...

Or How 72 Chickens Kept Us Sane During the Global Pandemic.  Based on a quilt by Quilty Love , based on a block by Sew Inspired ,  w...

Now that we are coming out from under the pandemic it is time to do a little documentation. Not that we didn't have time at the time, bu...

It’s Spring! We’ve got the planting bug and are more than ready to start enjoying our too-short Wisconsin growing season by stocking up...

Pollyanna is a very old reference from a book written by Eleanor H. Porter in 1913. Probably most people don't know why we say some...

There is no acceptable substitute for real maple syrup. However the price of real syrup is somewhat dear,  so last March we pu...