Subject: CSA Week 7; We’re haying!
Hence this late, short, and sweet email! After a VERY rainy month of June we finally got a little haying window and we are making the most of it! We’ve been tedding, raking, baling, and
Hence this late, short, and sweet email! After a VERY rainy month of June we finally got a little haying window and we are making the most of it! We’ve been tedding, raking, baling, and
Last week we had a scare. After celebrating the news upon Dale’s arrival in April that he was expecting a new baby in August, we got the sobering news last Friday that his wife was
We’ve reached the part of the season when Fern disappears from view completely when she ventures off the path and into the hay fields. Only the swishing of the grass marks her path and her
You’ve probably heard the term “backhanded compliment,” those stinging insults disguised as flattery. But have you ever heard of the opposite; a front handed insult? I hadn’t, until I started searching for a phrase to
It is with great relief (and a healthy knock on wood) that we flip the calendar to June and leave the danger of frost in the rearview mirror. While our official last frost date is
On my kitchen counter is a piece of scrap paper with a running grocery shopping list. These days there are several items that might as well be permanently printed, because we buy them week after week.
Or did it ever really end? As the harvest season gets under way and the weather shifts towards summer patterns, I am tempted to celebrate a new beginning. And, of course, there is plenty to
oday’s snow is the perfect end to our Winter CSA season. Last night as I wrote end of season cards to the farm crew by the woodstove I noted the beauty of our cyclical work.
The winter solstice is upon us. Mornings move a little slower. Crops in the hoop houses hunker down under remay blankets. Our daily paths around the farm shrink to the barnyard circuit. And early evening shadows
Though to snow and cold have slowed progress a bit, we are now “dried in” on the new house we are building for our farm crew. The windows and doors are in, and as soon as
Our recent snow storm may have covered the fields (and any tools we missed in our big cleanup sweep) but it has also uncovered a whole aspect of the farm that usually goes unnoticed; the animal life
With full hearts and bellies after yesterday’s Thanksgiving meal, we woke up this morning to a snow squall reminder that winter is just around the corner. Today we are putting the disc harrow on for