Inside Outside Michiana

Have you made a Nature Bucket List for this summer already? If not, you might want to try it out! A few weeks ago, we sat down and tried an ...

Early July is one of my favorite times of the year! Mulberries are usually still going strong and black raspberries are usually ripening. We...

My son turned six this weekend! He has really been enjoying Master Chef Jr, along with his brothers. He enjoys helping cook, garnishing thin...

It's that time of the year again! Science Fair time! Just about a month ago, we bought a Jersey cow with a nearby family. The cow stay...

This weekend, I stopped by Better World Books in Goshen for an author talk by Stephen Russell, who wrote The Essential Guide to Cultivat...

We were in Niles last week to visit the Fort St. Joseph Museum so stopped by the U-pick Lavender Hill Farm . It is open mid June through mid...

This is our second year visiting Sugar Camp Days at Bendix Woods County Parks ! What a tasty adventure! Here is our report from 2013 if you...

I manned a booth at the Michiana Master Gardeners Spring Celebration this last weekend. There were various nature and gardening related boo...

Finally! Temps above freezing during the day and below freezing at night! Here are a few posts I've done about maple tree tapping in t...

We certainly had our share of snow days in January this year--8 to be exact! It wasn't always snow. Many were from extremely low tempera...

On our way back from Kalamazoo, we found the honey spot! We bought a gallon from here when we first moved to the area and were needing more....

Look at the beautiful colors in our roasted veggies! Our CSA season is winding down. I liked gathering our food each week at the farm on the...

My son was so excited about his field trip to Kercher's Sunrise Orchard this week! We've already picked apples this summer, but it...

My aunt mentioned she had a tree full of transparent apples heavy with fruit. She never sprayed. She didn't know it was an apple tree as...