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Pumpkin Harvest

Fall is here.  The weather is changing, the kids are back in school, and pumpkin spice is at Starbucks.  At the Ranch, you can always tell we have transitioned to fall when the pumpkins are harvested and lined up on the front porch. Emily & Peyton on the front...

Our Unique Piece of Property

There are several things about our 5.6 acre piece of property that makes it unique and why we purchased it. First off, and often the most noticeable, is we live on an airport. A taxi way runs alongside our backyard, and 100 yards in front of our front door is a...

Spaghetti Sauce

36 Quarts of canned spaghetti sauce ready to be labeled The garden is in full bloom. Wednesday night, we went out and picked roughly 90 pounds of tomatoes.  We have about 8 plants, each of a different variety.  Tomato plants in the garden We have used...

Maggot Farm

Have you ever heard of a maggot farm? Most likely not. We had not either before the G & E Ranch.  There are a lot of animal losses in this business, and we wanted to figure out a way to utilize those losses rather than throw them in the garbage. We have...

Basics of Canning

What do you think of when you think of canning? Do you think of your grandma slaving in the kitchen for hours making a dozen pints of green beans? Do you think of water bath canning or pressure canning? Does it seem intimidating, or does pressure canning seem scary?...

Egg Collection (by a princess)

Peyton in her Princess dress collecting eggs Greg has been gone this week on his annual week-long backpacking trip.  This is the 33rd year he & his buddies have picked a national wilderness and gone off on a backpacking adventure.  This leaves Peyton and I home to...