You know, even after fourteen years of telling stories about my life (and the things I build) on the internet, I still spend an inordinate…

Every spring as I’m starting work in the vegetable garden– hours upon hours spent planting seeds, weeding, building garden boxes, mulching, composting, transplanting, watering, and…

Every year I go into spring with a ton of energy and a ton of projects, and I’m always convinced that energy and motivation will…

Sometime late last year my dad informed me that my extended family wanted to take a vacation together this summer and that we would all…

When I first considered adding a few rows of grapevines to the farm, I figured building the trellis to grow them on would be the…

For so many of the early years on the farm spring was a daily, relentless battle against grass and weeds. One I almost always lost….

The last week in May is what I’ve come to think of as my Spring Sanity Week. Up until that point, I’m usually trying to…

A few nights ago I had one of those dreams that was oddly real, but, you know, also clearly not real and therefore incredibly disorienting….

My little orchard is still in its early years– which means it’s still a fair amount of work– but there’s such an amazing sense of…

If there’s an unsung hero in the epic adventure of buying and fixing up this little farm, it has to be this woman: That’s my…

To say that last year wasn’t my best year as a beekeeper would be a massive understatement. I lost two of my hives mid-fall after…

Spring on the farm is so wonderfully insane that all I really have time for is making lists. Like this one, for example, because there…

Spring on the farm is always such a brilliant and confusing mix of relief (winter is over!) and wonder (all this beautiful new life is…

Let me just start out by saying this: all the animals on the farm are alive and well. Whew. And, after 3 straight weekends of…

I’m currently trying to dig myself out from under the overwhelming amount of day-job and farm-related work that March continued to pile on–relentlessly and with…