At the end of the season last year I was 98% sure we wouldn’t plant a kitchen garden at all this year. This decision was two-fold: We’d had our asses handed to us throughout the season and With my new job working alongside the Farmers’ Market, I had fresh produce available for the purchasing multiple times a week But as…
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Shown I do believe Mama is officially pregnant! How do I know without a blood test or an ultrasound? She’s asking for love and letting me pet her again, with a passion 🙂 She is usually very aloof, but we learned last year that this changes dramatically when she’s pregnant. So, YAY! (Pretty sure Lucy & Ethel are pregnant, too,…
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I’ve been missing this space and, being so full of so many stories to tell, unsure of how to make a re-entry. And so here we are, more than half-way through October and I’m barely editing many of September’s captures. I’ll chalk it up to the busy-ness of work and Studio Tour prep, farm life and family life. All good,…
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Where the heck did summer go? How is it possibly already September?! And why is the season shifting so swiftly?! And yet it is. The shift from summer to fall is upon us… With the first leaves turning, the later sunrises, the stormy afternoons, the fruit in pure abundance, and the necessity for a hoodie during morning chores, the season…
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Yes, the Peach Abundance is starting to roll in and I couldn’t be more excited! I’ve never grown/harvested my very own peaches before and there’s just something about The First Time, isn’t there? So, with about 1/3 of the tree fully ripe and ready for harvest, we spent Sunday picking, sorting, eating, and putting up the bounty. There were muffins,…
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I’ve come to the realization that the Urban Farm we left behind is no longer an Urban Farm. It’s a nice house on a tiny piece of property with a ton of potential and all the infrastructure someone would need to turn it back into an urban farm, sure. . . But currently just a house. Now, I knew there…
