Farming

Ground Bees! Ugh.

This was one of those weeks when it feels like sometimes danger lives a little too close on the farm. But spoiler alert - while there...

Mystery Apple Tree

Bill and Aidan picked our apples this week. You might wonder what kind of an apple tree it is? Well, we do too. As you may have guessed,...

Sassy Has a Litter of Piglets

Sassy, one of our Kune Kune (sounds like koony koony) sows, had her first litter of piglets yesterday. It's a few weeks earlier than...

Happiness Shared is a Flower

Red Zinnia I recently read the quote "Happiness shared is a flower", and it resonated. Flowers make me feel happy and growing them feels...

Reaching for Sunflowers

I love this recent photo of me and a volunteer sunflower growing in the middle of one of our vegetable fields. Even though I look older...

Beauregard Playing Hide 'n Seek

Our heifer Betty had her first calf, a little bull, he's a Jersey, Red Angus and Pinzgauer cross with white socks and tail tip. These...

Grandpa's Incubator, Aidan, Baby Chicks, and Cake.

Chick hatching is Aidan's project. He uses his Grandpa Meyer's old incubator. It hadn't seen eggs for decades until we moved to our farm...

My Choice

I always have this idea that as winter approaches, things will slow down, and we’ll have lots of “down” time. I envision myself sleeping...

My "Ode" to Yellow

My birthday is in the middle of November, and there have always been things I liked about that, and others I didn’t. When I was a kid,...