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…

It feels like ages ago that my biggest concern around the farm was cutting and installing the kitchen counters. Then the big windstorm hit, which…

Last week marked 5 years to the day since I officially closed on this property and took my first victory lap around the farm. That inaugural…

Let’s start this post off by talking about personal strengths. Mine fall along the lines of 1.) tearing apart a house I’m living in, 2.)…

After two incredibly exhausting weekends installing the new kitchen counters, and the subsequent recovery from that adventure, I finally had to pick myself up off…