January must have been the longest year ever, don’t you think? All kidding aside, I’m glad for the turning of a page, even if it’s just a page in the 2025 calendar. January brought us our coldest night yet (-19*), lots of frozen water alongside a bit of wood chopping, a few snow flurries and a lot of sunshine. Despite…
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Since beginning to work with and on the land all those years ago I’ve come to look at August as The Month From Hell. Everything happens at once and the weeds are out of control and it’s so freakin’ hot and I’m just so very tired and there’s so damned much to do and it truly seems as though that…
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Years ago, while I was still working in support of local agriculture and not a full-time farmer myself yet, I had many profound and insightful conversations with a wide diversity of Farmers at every Market, but one conversation has come back to me over and over again and came to the top of my mind again this week. As I…
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If a farm blogger doesn’t blog about farming in over a year, are they still a farmer? Yes. But are they still a blogger? Yes. Just a very busy one 😉 The August tension is upon us once again. That liminal, exhausted space at the height of summer held tenderly between excitement and overwhelm… between abundance and chaos… between contemplating…
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Two weeks ago I wrote about a horrific hail storm that came through our part of the little valley we live in, damaging our crops and sending me into a bit of a tizzy. Little did I know when I hit publish on that post that later that day an even more damaging storm would come through and nearly decimate…
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Oh HI! How the heck are you? It’s been a few minutes… errrr… months 😉 You know, when I mentioned in my last post that I was allowing myself some space and time to rest during the Winter months, I truly didn’t intend to be gone from this space for so long but life has a way of happening when…
