Articles
Sustainable Foodie
Remember visiting Grandma’s farm as a child, helping feed the chickens, or watching her make an apple pie from scratch? Remember helping haul firew...
Storm Stories
If you’re tucked back in the woods, sometimes it’s hard to see the weather coming. If you’re on the lake, you might have a great view of impending ...
Spring Cleaning
When interns come to our farm, there are lots of things to learn, but one of the first lessons goes like this: half of good farming is cleaning, an...
Small but Mighty
The call comes at 6:30 in the morning. Only the first rays of light shift the deep blues to a brighter haze. A bit of hoarfrost coats the branches,...
Signs of Spring
After the recent snowing and blowing with cloudy skies, frozen ground, and not even a crocus to greet us, we are all in need of reminders that spri...
Shear, Sheared, Shorn
It’s that time of year, with lambs just around the corner. The great wooly beasts are corralled in the corner of the barn, waiting for the approach...
Seed Catalogue Scribbles
“Need a trellising cucumber that doesn’t get a waist in the middle and peas that harvest all at once,” is on our wish-list this year as we thumb th...
Rhubarb Ruminations
The cravings start in February, on those days when the teasing inklings of spring melt the snows around the base of the maple trees. Rhubarb. In la...
Pumpkin Time
The golden-orange orbs with gnarly, spiny caps are coming! Soon they shall appear on porches, stair steps, decks, and sidewalks. They come short an...
Porcine Adventures
One of the best contributors to a homestead farm are the animals—from chickens that eat garden and kitchen scraps and turn them into eggs and compo...
