Gardening

The RECCS Plant Sale is coming up tomorrow, Saturday, over at Shelby Paint & Hardware. Talk about SPRING(!) here in the Big Sky(!)...there's going to be a VARIETY of fruits, vegetables & herbs available at this special sale tomorrow here in Shelby.. The h...

"Talkative" Todd, the custom cutter guy who comes up here to our Golden Triangle every harvest season is in the Vernon, Texas area this week & Todd reports that his custom cutter guys had begun to harvest, but had to QUIT(!) because of "too much green!" T...

It's one of my favorite Beatles tunes! Tomorrow night, Wednesday, there's going to be a Community Work Night going on at the Main Street Park down in Valier. "Work Together", that's what the Canned Heat sang abou,t  & EVERYONE is being invited to the Community Work Night tomorrow night at the Main Street Park in Valier. Ro...

That's what we used to say back in the 60's, but today I'm blogging about the REVOLUTIONARY new "FOOD book", "Voices of the Food Revolution: You Can Heal Your Body and Your World with Food"! Pioneering food & social activist, Huffing Post contributor, & bestselling author John Robbins, along with his son, Ocean Robbins, sits down with 21 of the world's leading experts w

It's a regular "Garden Party"! I'm blogging about the annual Chester Garden Club Plant Sale scheduled for this Monday. The Annual Chester Garden Club Plant Sale will be held at Our Saviors's Lutheran Church Fellowship Hall from 10 in the morning until 4 o'clock on Monday afternoon...

"Talkative" Todd, the custom cutter guy from up north of the border, says he's ready to move south. Todd said that there is no rush to get there, other than to take a "look-see" at the crops. The "experts" are talking a 37 bushel average(!) while the producers are jacking their jaws about 5 to 14 bushels...

"Farmacology" is NOT the course Conrad area farmer Gary Gollehon majored in back in college! Rather it's the title of the fascinating  new hardcover book from Daphne Miller. "Farmoacology" doesn't frighten me because I recently did a Puffman Blog on "Foodology"...

Not very...in Kevin today (Wednesday). The town of Kevin will have NO bulk water today or tomorrow (Thursday) because of necessary repairs taking place on the system. The good news is, that they DO expect to have it back up on Friday. I'll keep you posted here on my Puffman Blog, &, of course, we'll be updating you "On-The-Air" on both KSEN AM 1150 & K 96 FM-96.7. The ... Read Mo

"Tall" Todd, the customer harvester fellow reports today that his 1st cutting job will be Billings, Montana! Todd says he was only to take a couple of machines down to Billings, but thinks the crops (what there is of them!) will be ready at one time, so everybody will need a machine...

No, it not's playing a game of monopoly while chowing down! "Foodopoly" is the title of a brand new hardcover book by the Executive Director of Food & Water Watch, Wenonah Hauter. The subtitle of this tome from The New Press (www.thenewpress.com...

Word was received this morning (Thursday) from one of the custom cutting guys who comes up here to the Golden Triangle every harvest. "Tall" Todd says he's talked with producers out in Kansas & that they had a cold front & wind, 10 above weather, & 50 mph north winds that blew through & FLATTENED the winter wheat. This storm hit...

On today's Extension Minute, Toole County Agent Joe Parks mentioned several MontGuide publications produced by the MSU Cooperative Extension Service to help you raise a more bountiful home garden this summer. MontGuides are free at your County Extension Service office, or as downloadable pdf's...