While doing the evening chores yesterday, I was struck by the continuous balance one has to find on a farm or a homestead or even in life in general. We face the dichotomy of it all in the largest moments of life and death as well as in the seasonal balance of sowing, growing, weeding, irrigating, harvesting, and hope despite…
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Or at least what’s left of it, no? Alas, the garden is in, the farm is popping, the chicks are growing and all.the.ducks are setting their clutches (as they do). It’s been a whirlwind of a couple of months here, both farm related and non-farm related. I’d wager a guess, though, that no one wants to read all the nitty…
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When we first moved onto the property we are caretaking (way back in 2018!), I didn’t put in perennials beyond an herb garden because we were looking at a three-year agreement and it didn’t makes sense to my short-term thinking at the time. Well, Present Me is now kicking Past Me for not being more proactive in 2018 and 2019…
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Pruning last year’s growthTo make space for focused energyAnd the potential for future abundanceUnder unseasonably warm skies Snip, drop, stepSnip, drop, step Gather up the fallen partsPut them in a pileAnd feed them through the chipperSo they can nurture future growth There’s a metaphor in there somewhere. Everyone is talking about the weird weather…Offering grunts and nods and shakes of…
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743 days It’s been 743 days since I last sat down to write in this space… And almost that long since the world shut down and all of our lives slid into wildly unprecedented times. The truth is, I can’t imagine any one of us had a real read on what what to come as we watched two weeks shift…
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T-Minus 10 days and counting, and I can’t imagine how much bigger Mama might get between now and her sweet babies joining us! We’ve spent the month of April doing our best to pull everything together for the arrival of our very first kids (and births!) on the farm. We’re nervous and excited, worried and trusting, exhausted and inspired. We’ve…
