They saying goes, if you can’t beat them, join them…so we’ve all decided to go a bit nuts around here! We purchased a nut cracker last year, which never made it out of the box. This year, we had a big crop of walnuts as well as some pecans and heartnuts we purchased from a […]
Harvest season has been a long haul this year. I have had a hard time keeping up with everything, from the influx of fresh food, to the realizations that we need to move on to bigger and better things. The crux of our business is from the two greenhouses Rob and a friend took on […]
At this time of year, harvest is abundant! Processing food for the winter months is all consuming and the incoming volume of produce seems relentless. We have been working our way through bushels of tomatoes, peppers, apples and cucumbers that have blessed our counters. It’s hard to see that volume of perishable food as a […]
Our culture has a very low tolerance for crying. I know this because I feel it in my gut every time one of my children begins. I think that our mammalian instinct to run to the aid of our child has been misplaced. Instead of a genuine care for the well being of our child, […]
This summer has been a busy one around here. We’ve been racing from one event to the next, taking weekend trips and day trips – packing as much into our days without coats as possible. We are tired. We are all tired. What seemed like a good idea at the beginning of the summer, to […]
This past weekend we invited friends over to learn how to graft fruit trees! Rob and a couple of other attendees have attended workshops with Ken Taylor to learn how to graft onto root stock. There were a few reasons for us to host a work party. Realistically, we have been meaning to do this […]
A friend of mine recently put out a call for someone to take a few of her beloved chickens. She ordered some Swedish Flower eggs in the Spring, and didn’t expect almost all of them to hatch! For this reason, we will be getting three hens and a rooster! We are so excited for their […]
How is it possible that we have people so impoverished that they have to eat dirt cookies in order to trick their stomachs into thinking they’re full? They have no food. My husband brought up that he had seen this video last week as we sat around the dinner table. The children were curious, asking […]
My littlest has started walking. Gone are the days where she must be carried, but then again, gone are the days that she must be carried! Change always means I am leaving something behind. Sometimes I am happy to move on and release what no longer serves me. But at other times, change leaves me […]
We spent the day cleaning our barn out yesterday. It felt so good to get things moved out of our space that we no longer have use for. It is always an interesting balance to strike between ‘making no waste’ and becoming hoarders! We have taken the stance that if we have a project in […]
