Read what is happening in the Nate & Kate Family. Nate is the oldest of the ten Palmer children and has been married to Kate for 14 years. They have five children. They moved back to the farm in 2001.

FALL WORK

Squirreling away food while putting yards and gardens to sleep marks the end of summer. Two of my little cowboys worked to separate the stuck or stabbed potatoes on the last warm Saturday we had.

On another Saturday Nate brought in a load of decomposed hay from the stack yard.

We worked to weed the flowerbeds and spread the organic material around. This will help to soften up the rock hard, clay soil. And it looks so pretty. I’ve only weeded and put this on about half the flowerbeds. I’m still hoping for the snow to melt so I can finish.

The children used the wheel barrow to collect all the baling twine from the mulch hay. You know–the twine that used to hold the bale together before it got old and moldy and decomposed into a black mass of organic material.

And I FINALLY finished canning. I’m so excited to have all the canning equipment put away and my shelves restocked for the winter. Sometimes I wander downstairs and stare at the rows of filled bottles and the freezer filled with meat. It makes my heart happy.