Small Farm / Hobby Farm / Farm
8 years ago when I decided to quit my job and buy a farm, we approached the bank for a pre-arranged mortgage. We were clear...Read More
Stars
Tonight, 10:40, barn check. I pull my coveralls over my flannel pajamas and step outside. It is dark, my eyes take a moment to adjust,...Read More
Carl.
There's only one way to describe our relationship with Carl. "It's complicated." Carl was a Katahdin ram. He came to us as a bottle baby,...Read More
Growing
It's been over a year since I've written anything and it's been the hardest year I've ever experienced. I've started writing many times and stopped...Read More
5 Years In – an Autumn Reflection
Summer is gone. It seems like eons ago that I was stressing over weeds and succession planting and watering and... it's gone. The trees are...Read More
It’s 9:48 pm…
...on a Wednesday night. About an hour or so past my bedtime. But an hour or so ago I was eating supper, last night's leftovers,...Read More
Teste Situations
Yesterday was another milestone here on the farm. Yesterday we sent our first lamb to freezer camp. Well, Troy actually did the deed. I was...Read More
Homily to the Homely
Wherever there's spray-free produce there's also an abundance of ugly produce...it's a fact. Things often go sideways when you grow without pesticides and chemical fertilizers....Read More
The Price is Wrong
It's veggie season again and that means those of us who sell produce at market have to step away from the fields and weeds for...Read More
Coming Clean on Responsible Ingredients
Over the 6 years that I've been making Tipsy Toad goat milk soap and body products the things that I make have evolved, and my...Read More
Meat is Murder?
WARNING! THIS POST CONTAINS SOME GRAPHIC PICTURES OF MEAT PRODUCTION THAT SOME PEOPLE MAY FIND OFFENSIVE OR HARD TO VIEW. Meat is murder? Well, that...Read More
Holy Hot Peppers!
In all my years of growing things, peppers, and particularly hot peppers, have probably been my biggest challenge. For some reason, when everything else was...Read More