James Montgomery Flagg 's iconic image of Uncle Sam turned 96 years old yesterday. Although most of us know the stern, finger-pointing...

by John L. Russell, Jr. What will farms be like 50 years from now? How will the average farmer live? Will there even be farms? Dr. Jame...

While Mrs. KintlaLake was out of town on business early this week, I gathered two dozen ripe Roma tomatoes, cut them into quarter-inch slic...

Our volunteer gourd vines started dying back a couple of weeks ago, and I finally got 'round to harvesting what they left behind. Th...

More than two dozen tomatoes, harvested from the garden yesterday morning, finish ripening on stone windowsills in our kitchen. Over in the...

In yesterday's much-ballyhooed (but patently inconsequential) Ames Straw Poll , Rep. Michele Bachmann won a squeaker over Rep. Ron Pau...

It's a damp, overcast morning here at KintlaLake Ranch. Seems like a good time to catalog some unexpected finds. In one of my Urban Re...

Around 6pm today I emerged from the humble KintlaLake vegetable garden with our first two Roma tomatoes, six yellow pear tomatoes, more th...

I've been sending a photo like that one to Mrs. KintlaLake almost every morning these days. By the time it shows up in her e-mailbox s...

Like many of my fellow citizens, I've spent a lot of time recently tracking the progress (or lack thereof) of debt-ceiling discussions ...

(As I type this, the outdoor temperature here in our village is 95°F. Coupled with 64% relative humidity and a dew point of 81°F, the "...

One of the five raised beds in our vegetable garden hosts a tomato plant, two sweet basil plants, two hot pepper plants, four cucumber vine...

When we moved into these digs last year, our discoveries included a basement shelf lined with empty glass jars -- three dozen vintage Ball,...

Ok, so it's been a while. I've been busy. Well, that's not quite accurate. Although there's been lots happening around t...

Wetter-than-usual weather has played hell with spring planting in this part of the country. Farmers haven't been able to get into sodd...