Eye (Can’t) Spy
I woke up this morning with what felt like something in my eye. I wasn’t overly surprised. I spend an ungodly amount of my existence...Read More
Good Night Stevil Knievel
Steve. Named after mountain bike downhiller Steve Peat; a badass in his own right from beginning… to end. Steve was born in Mount Uniacke, one...Read More
Lettuce -$0.015 /head
Everyone is talking about the price of food right now. The media is reporting that groceries have increased on average 11% over this time last...Read More
Piggy Fort Knox
One of the biggest challenges in keeping livestock is the need to separate the area in which they may roam from the area in which...Read More
Sleep
My alarm was set for 4 am this morning but it didn’t go off. I was out of bed at 3:42 and making coffee, alarm...Read More
What Do You Do?
That age-old question, designed to assign value based on the manner in which you pad your bank account (and not often related to the amount...Read More
Another Season Down
That's it, another growing season in the books... sort of. It's the end of this year's CSA deliveries, anyway. 20 weeks ago, as June rolled...Read More
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