Today we are going to cover cold frame management and hoop house management during the winter months. Cold Frame …
Self Sufficiency
Year-Round Gardening Series Part 2 – Year Round Garden Soil Preparation
Part two of our Year-Round Gardening series will focus on Year-Round Garden Soil …
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Everbearing Strawberries in your Backyard Garden
If you love strawberries, why not grow your own? Everbearing strawberries produce a continuous harvest of sweet …
Holy Cow it’s Cold!!!
The Salt Lake City area is famous for cold weather and crappy air quality in January. This year is especially bad. …
Preparing and storing Potatoes
Once our potatoes are out of the ground we like to take them inside our garage and lay them out on our makeshift table …
Digging Main Crop Potatoes
Any one that is really serious about being self reliant has to include potatoes in their garden. I have read authors …
Harvest Monday 10-3-11
October has arrived here at Stoney Acres and that means the harvest that had been really big for the last 6 weeks is …
First Egg Times Two!!
Just like that, after months of waiting now we have two hens laying. The kids checked the coop this afternoon and …
Harvest Totals Monday September 19, 2011
This week was all about melons around Stoney Acres. Because of our cold wet spring our water melons and cantaloupe have …
Preserving Corn
We love to eat corn on the cob around here but we really don’t have the space to grow much ourselves. We have tried …
Free Loading Chickens
The Chickens arrived here at Stoney Acres on Memorial Day May 30th. Here’s a picture of them the day they …
Early Potatoes
We love potatoes here at Stoney Acres. Especially new red potatoes!!! Every year we risk frost and muddy ground in …