Posts written by: Melissa @ Ever Growing Farm

If we were having coffee…

If we were having coffee…

If we were having coffee... I'd greet you with a big fat hug and tell you how wonderful it is to see you! It's lightly snowing outside again so we'd find a cozy nook to catch up in. I'd ask how you've been...how your family's doing...how work is going? And we'd dive straight in to Catch Up Mode because, gosh…
January 12, 2019

Winter

Being new to a property and micro-climate is a trip! You know... We'd noticed a few of the trees in the orchard that grew at incredibly wonky angles, but it wasn't until the winds picked up in the spring and sent very heavy items spinning about like children's toys, that we made the connection between bent trees and the "wind events"…
January 2, 2019

2018 in Review – Another Year in the Books!

Despite my sporadic presence here this year, I simply could not let us slip into 2019 without a review of 2018, now could I?! It seems as though the thing to do these days instead of making a resolution or two to kick off a new year is to pick a word as a theme to focus on in the…
December 31, 2018
The Autumn Slide

The Autumn Slide

What a summer it's been! I swear to you that I've written this post at least 15 times in my head over the past few weeks, updating it as new things have happened and trying to pull seconds out of free minutes to put pen to paper (or cursor to screen, if you will). I've thought around how to communicate months…
September 10, 2018

Roots & Fruits

We've been in our new home for just over three months now. Though, if I'm being honest, it feels like much, much longer. Inside, we've been figuring out storage, adjusting to a tiny kitchen with very little counter space, navigating passive solar and the beginnings to what's shaping up to be a brutal summer, and thoroughly enjoying sharing a smaller…
June 12, 2018

Mama’s Quadruplets

Quads! Can you believe it! Yes, last Thursday night (3/22), Mama Mello gave us quadruplets! The delivery was quite rough with them all twisted and tangled up in there, but everyone survived and is thriving! As I thought it might, it all started on Thursday afternoon when I realized Mama's pen tendons were gone. Ember helped me gather the Goat Box…
March 27, 2018