Planting apples 2011

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Northern Spy Apples – It’s what’s inside that counts!

“Spys for pies!” says Nan, the pie baking champion of Central Lake. She should know, as she has been cooking apple pies for the swiss steak dinners at the Methodist Church every third Saturday of the month for years and years. Up here, people know their pies and endurance and competence are synonymous when it […]

Spring work progress

Well, it got to 28F last night and we ran the wind machines. I don’t know if they do any good but the theory sounds plausible. In the spring when we have clear nights the earth acts as a radiator and objects  (blossoms, grass, windshields) radiate their heat energy away to space. So the blossoms […]