It had been a while since we added a big group of chickens to the farm. In 2012, we moved the founding members of 5R Farm – Rhoda, Raquel...

Now that spring has finally arrived it's nice to be seeing more green than brown in the garden! My chive patch gets bigger each year, and...

Now more than ever I am grateful for the space to grow a large garden and for the skills to preserve our harvest to provide greater food ...

I'm not one for New Years resolutions, but one New Years tradition that I do enjoy is looking back at my photos from the year and reminis...

As 2019 comes to a close, I can't help but reflect on how fortunate I am. As I do my rounds during the peaceful mornings to bring out bre...

It was a bit of an unusual year in the garden, filled with trials and tribulations, but in the end it was a good year with plenty of surp...

It was six years ago that we started beekeeping and welcomed our first honeybees to the farm. After the first hive was successfully estab...

Oh winter, I’ll be glad to bid this one goodbye. It started out as a fairly uneventful winter, busy with work and the holidays, but still...

We’ve had so much going on at the farm that the end of summer and fall just flew by this year! A big project that has been ongoing for mu...

It’s been a whirlwind of a summer with lots of time spent watering, watering, and more watering due to our record setting heat waves and ...

I’ve been so busy with the garden, chickens and turkeys, and my hobby soap making business that I’ve had a hard time keeping up with the ...

We have new turkey babies (which are called poults) at the farm, and they are so very adorable! For those of you unfamiliar with turkey a...

Now that warmer spring days are finally here, I’ve been spending more time gardening which is one thing that I really miss in the winter....

Ahhh spring, it’s finally here! Although we are still having lots of cool, rainy days, there are plenty of things to be excited about at ...

Spring is an exciting time at the farm for many reasons, pretty spring flowers in the yard, starting seeds in the greenhouse, the chicken...

After months of the chickens spending most of their time hunkered down in their coops from the cold and the wind and the rain, they are f...

I’ve said it many times before, because it’s true. Every time there’s a sad day at the farm, I turn around and there’s something to make ...

This was our fourth year living at the farm full time, and every year it gets better and better. One of my favorite things about living o...

Despite a few setbacks in the garden this year, we did have a pretty good harvest by the time late summer and fall rolled around. A few c...

I cannot believe how this summer has flown by! As much as I wish all of my time could be spent on the farm taking care of the chickens an...