Building a permanent deep-pit BBQ
Jacob, our pet sheep, oversees Aaron's preparation of the BBQed lamb There’s nothing like a deep-pit BBQ when you’re cooking for a bunch [...]
A New Cellar for Meat & Wine – Finishing Touches
Jacob and Lily examine the finished project From the beginning it had been our goal to have the new cellar finished in [...]
A New Cellar for Meat & Wine – Part 3 – “Many hands make for light work”
Brook, Tri & Daniel prepare to build the log roof structure After the hole had been dug for the new cellar the [...]
Root Cellar Construction – Part 2 – Getting started
The kitchen cellar at Timber Butte Homestead I’ve built three root-cellars over the past forty-five years. The first one I hand dug [...]
A Cellar for Meat and Wine – Part 1
A New cellar for Timber Butte Our farmstead here on Timber Butte has continued to mature since its conception ten years ago. [...]
Four Seasons for Mom
Mom's last year on the ranch Before I tell our story of bringing my 92 year old mother who had advanced dementia [...]
Farm-steading in the 21st century
Nancy & Tri walking the land where their farmstead would one day be In trying to define our vision for the development [...]
Rattlesnake and Nancy’s Blackberry Crisp – Entry #223
Rattlesnake in the berrypatch Nancy’s crisp for lunch The Blackberries were prolific in the garden this year and [...]
What my new book, “The Committee for the Reburial of Liver-eating Johnston” is about? – Entry #222
“The Committee for the Reburial of Liver-eating Johnston” books cover In 1973 I was a young teacher at Park [...]
The payoff of preparation for another growing season – Entry #221
Timber Butte Garden after the pre-work is done Jacob, the bummer lamb helps Nancy seed the onion bed [...]
