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 the pink blossoms r...

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 security than was pr...

One of the things on my to do list for 2020 was to start brewing kombucha. I stocked up on kombucha supplies and reading material for Christmas, and in early...

Some days it feels like spring is right around the corner. Daffodils are popping up out of the ground, and on the occasional sunny day the robins appear out ...

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 reminiscing over everything...

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 breakfast and again in ...

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 surprises and successes ...

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

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 a pretty good one. ...

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 the farm. I started ...

It’s been a few months since I last wrote about the bees, and since then we’ve had a very soggy cold start to the spring. I had been waiting to open up the h...

It’s been a fabulous summer in the garden this year, thanks to an early spring and record setting warm temperatures this summer. We had 27 days above 90 degr...

It’s been a great year for berries at the farm, and I think I’ve put about 15 quarts of strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries in the freezer. With all t...

I’ve been getting into canning more and more over the last few years, and this year we put away more food for the winter than ever before. Two of my old stan...