• Local Bite

    #LocalBite Mini Challenge – Week Three

    I have a confession to make: Despite my great intentions last week, I simply was not able to push a few seeds into the soil. Utter failure. I could blame to 100* days or my exhaustion or the sickness that has plagued our house for a month now or the…

  • Chickens

    Country Chickens

    Despite my romanticized visions of perpetually gorgeous views with all sorts of beautiful farm animals frolicking about it’s becoming abundantly clear that real life often looks a bit different. Case in point: Country chickens. They are a funky bunch. They are brave and stupid. (Stupidly brave?) They escape the coop…

  • Local Bite

    #LocalBite Mini Challenge – Week Two

    I have to admit, I almost didn’t make it here today. Between sheer exhaustion and a full blown stomach flu over the weekend (which is still rumbling today), it’s been a rough few days, but I made it! And, despite my super busy work day on Saturday, I did in…

  • Goats

    Decisions

    It’s been a full month and we still haven’t decided what to do with these two cuties. We don’t want/don’t have the space, time, need, or wherewithal to keep both of them as bucks so we’ve been waiting to see what their personalities are before making a final decision. Regardless, to…

  • Grow - Harvest

    Garden Update – Early June

    The garden has hit it’s June plateau. You know, that space between prepping and planting and actual harvesting when all that seems to be thriving are the weeds? Yeah, that. But with the garden mostly in (minus some succession sowing and the greens bed I just tore out last weekend that…