Farm News

Farm Life 2020

What a year 2020 was! It appears that no one was immune to the disruptive course of the year. I, like so many, found myself dealing with a vast number emotions. I found myself floating on the river of life having to trust my body to keep me, while I went with the current and …

Farming

Thoughts While Farming

When I farm I often have times that are quiet, times where I am doing repetitive tasks or things that allow my brain to wander. A year ago I often thought about how everything is connected. About how fungi create massive networks across my farm sharing nutrients from one end to another. About ways of …

Farm News

A Long Absence

So much has happened since I last wrote anything. I had many intentions to write on some of the things that have been occurring but then I had a loss in my family. That lead to making an emergency trip home to say good bye and help clean and put away the things that were …

Farm News

Week 18 on the Farm

2020 Autumn Edition It has been so long since I did a weekly update. The summer was so full, we had a farm visitor who helped with so many things! Then sadly, toward the end of the summer I hurt my back (Im actually still healing). It was pretty debilitating but I am becoming more …

Harvests In the Garden

Seed Saving – Basil

Basil is delicious and I love growing it in the summer, I also like to grow from seed as it is less expensive and if you start saving seeds you can close a loop. Saving seeds means that those seeds are ready for your garden, they know your soil and they know your weather conditions. …

Animals Farm News Pigs

Pig update

Well a lot has happened since we have had the pigs on the farm. Sadly we lost the runt pig who just could not catch up. We did everything possible to try and help her and it was heart wrenching when she finally succumbed. One of the things we tried to do was separate her …

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Week 46 and 47 on the Farm

2019 Spring Edition So much has happened both on and off the farm that I haven’t been able to catch up on these updates. That is why this time I am combining weeks. Week 47 marked our second anniversary on the farm. Now I am entering my third growing year and while I have been …