I did not grow up in a world that told me I could do or be anything I wanted. Quite the opposite, in fact. The…

The first day of November and it’s probably not even really cold enough out right now to merit a bonfire. But don’t think that’s stopping…

I cannot tell you the last time I went into weekend with no work or social obligations, all my project materials lined up, and a…

For most of September I was doing my best to maximize my time out in those last beautiful, sunny days of summer. But now we’ve…

Summer might be drawing to a close, but we’re still having wonderful weather in Michigan, and you’d have a tough time luring me back into…

A few weeks ago I spotted the first of the goldenrod blooming in the field behind my house, which meant all of my other projects and…

Okay, fine, dozens of peaches, but given this is my first peach harvest and–with all the concern I’ve had over the trees–I wasn’t sure I’d get…

If you asked me to summarize what starting a small vineyard on my property this year has been like I’d say roughly 50% digging holes and…

At pretty much any point in my life prior to living on this farm, my thought process around learning and/or doing new things went something…

There comes a point every summer when the frantic pace of farm-maintenance and projects I started in spring finally catch up to me. For a…

Back in January I had a premonition that I might be new additions of some kind to the farm… Yeah. I even put it on…

I’ve been doing a lot more writing over the last couple of weeks than one would probably suspect given how little I’ve posted to this…

For a piece of property that leaves almost no time for just sitting around, I’ve been oddly obsessed with creating places to sit around the…

Living on this little farm is an ongoing exercise in Things I Am Not Prepared For. Or, in this case, Things I Thought I Was…

Well, it’s been a crazy couple of weeks, but the upside of spending my evenings trying to get that damned vegetable garden under control is that……