Red Bucket Farm

Ach du Lieber! The squirrels have invaded our orchard, causing more destruction than any previous year. We're attributing it to a lack o...

A photo survey of the orchard this morning reveals several kinds of baby fruits. Can you name them? Photos from top...

We put the Mason Bees outdoors this morning. They have been in storage in the refrigerator for the winter, where they remain dormant but ...

As the growing season slowly comes to an end, I'm experimenting with drying herbs for cooking use as well as for my chickens. A far...

We've reached the point at Red Bucket Farm where we are much too busy---sowing, weeding, watering, fertilizing (chicken poop tea!), h...

Anyone who has gardened for more than a year or two knows that the garden is never finished. Most great gardens are in a constant state of t...

In his book The Holistic Orchard , fruit tree expert Michael Phillips offers recommendations for the overall health and productivity of ...

This spring we invested in an orchard ladder. It was a safety measure---too often I have watched my husband teetering a the top of an eig...

Record setting warm weather in March produced a very early blossom period for fruit trees and bushes here at Red Bucket Farm. We knew it wa...

The unusually warm spring weather in March has brought early April blossoms to Wisconsin. All eight blueberry bushes at Red Bucket Farm hav...

Our little peach tree has been loaded with fruit this summer, and we've been anxiously anticipating harvest of these delicious morsels. ...

Japanese beetles are a common garden pest. They invade in mid-summer, usually from early July to the middle of August. They are voracious le...

Here at Red Bucket Farm we have three cherry trees in our orchard in the side yard. The trees are different varieties of sour pie cherries--...

We have the usual spring blossoms at Red Bucket Farm---tulips, daffodils, trillium, bleeding heart, wood violets, jack-in-the-pulpit, and da...

It's a true harbinger of spring and a moment of happiness in the heart of every gardener. I'm referring to the weekend that the loca...