• Food Storage & Preservation

    Putting Up

    For years I participated in the weekly Harvest Monday link ups (previously hosted by Daphne, but now residing, thankfully, with Dave). I was so proud of every single ear of corn, apple, bush bean and kale leaf. I’d harvest it all, bring it all in, and painstakingly weight it *and document it.…

  • Grow - Harvest

    For the Love of Blue Corn

    I’ve always had an affinity for corn… A truly profound draw to it. I love the way it spirals up… Encircling itself as it reaches for the sun… Capturing the rain within its long outstretched leaves… Strongly rooted… Profoundly towering… Swaying in the breeze, dancing in the wind. The sounds,…

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    If we were having coffee…

    If we were having coffee… I’d greet you with a great big hug and thank you for joining me on this fine September morning! I’m in awe that it’s been since February (yes, February!) that we’ve taken the time to sit together for a while and catch up! But we’d…

  • Photography

    The Changing Seasons – August 2017

    Oh how I’ve missed participating in Cardinal’s monthly Changing Seasons link ups! Not just because it allows me to reflect on the month that has just passed, but also because it allows me to see how other are experiencing the passing of time in their corners of the world! Alas,…

  • Goats

    Goat Herding

    After almost four solid months with a larger-than-anticipated Nigerian Dwarf Goat herd, we’ve finally sold the three doelings we wanted to and are down from 11 to our final 2017 herd of eight: Thee mamas Three doelings One buck One wether I won’t pretend that I’m not a bit sad…

  • Family - Goats - Grow - Poultry

    Shown, Unshown – July into August

    Oh, how I’ve missed you all! And so here I am again, trying to document and share after being absent from this space for much longer than I’d hoped, planned, or anticipated! Realizing it is mid-August (how the heck did that happen), we’re way past due for a catch-up and…

  • Bees & Pollinators

    The Hummingbird

    Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the springing of the year. Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night; And…