• Kune Kune Pigs

    Crab Apples & Kune Kunes

    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…

  • Homesteading

    The August Tension

    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…

  • Homesteading

    On Hail Recovery

    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…

  • Homesteading

    Welcome May!

    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…

  • Homesteading

    Welcome Spring

    Once there was a thing called spring when the world was writing verses like yours and mine. Ella Fitzgerald Spring in the high desert is quite the trickster… 70* one day, 40* the next. Maybe it’ll rain… or snow… or hail… or torture us with insane winds… or be absolutely sunshiny and gorgeous. Somedays we’ll see all of the above…