Northview Diary

May 19...you can just "row out" the corn May 25, a little fuller and fluffier July 1 September 15 Also Septem...

Corn is being harvested at a breathtaking rate around here. Corn crews are flying over the fields; the big corn trucks rumble down the ro...

Looks a lot like work Matt and Kegan stopped over yesterday and made us six gallons of apple cider from the fruit of the Wine...

Gallon of fresh-pressed in the fridge, new picked apples on the table and a jar of soft, sweet honey in the cupboard. The kids took a frien...

Chopper man Sorghum seeds (where are the bobolinks? they love them)

We started digging garlic this week We love Refrigerator Dill Pickles We made some last year from a great online recipe and then we l...

Last year we picked our winter apples on November 11th . This year we kept hearing rumors about an early harvest, so despite the debatable w...

Yeah, tis the time of year for chores in the dark. O-dark thirty in the morning and after dark in the evening. It isn't too awful when i...

Or....Sometimes your morning coffee is the best part of the day . We are back into monsoon season here in the Great Northeast . Never really...

Guess what Alan and I did. What a difference a year makes. With the nasty late frost last year and the relentless rains, they only picked fi...

I hope it is one! Lots of hay this spring and summer will hopefully keep this guy busy all next winter. (Some of yesterday's corporate ...

The men started haying yesterday and put 250 bales of beautiful, soft green first cutting in the mow. After a series of soggy springs some r...

If you Google videos for "mowing hay" this is the top entry that you find. It has been viewed over 6400 times. Alan was mowing ha...

Went to our favorite orchard yesterday to pick a bushel of apples to store. (If we get a chance I am going back for more before they close...

The yard is alive with birds. More than usual, even though there have really been a lot of them this summer. I went out yesterday to check o...

Corn this time of year. ...Chopping it. Changing tires when they go flat. Filling the ag bags. Feeding it to the cows. Bringing ears like th...

Years ago my late and much missed mother-in-law planted an apple tree. Her late husband, Grandpa Delbert to my kids, planted a grape vine. ...