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...

We have a new momma at the farm, this time around it’s a chicken momma, and we have four new chicks as well. I had thought we were done...

I’ve had a few gardening challenges this year, but thankfully garden season is in full swing now and the harvest is looking promising. I...

We have three turkey mommas at the farm this year, and they all have interesting stories. Two of the turkey mommas are co-raising nine...

Our momma turkeys hatched their poults a month ago, and all of them were doing well except for one little turkey that came to be known as...

We have turkey babies at the farm! Eleanor, who raised turkey chicks, known as poults, for us last spring is raising another batch for us...

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...

Spring is the time for chicks at the feed store and all manner of cute baby animals on the Instagram pages of my farm friends. I have...

At long last, spring is here! It’s time to get my hands in the dirt and fight the good fight against slugs, rodents, cute little wild...

Well, gosh, sorry I’ve taken a few weeks off from the blog. There’s not been too much going on at the farm recently except for a whole...

One of the things I really enjoy about living on the farm is the change in seasons. After a long cold winter, and many days of mucking...

This winter was colder than usual, with several weeks of freezing or below freezing temperatures. Most of our feathered friends get along...

Last summer was a good summer for the deer, and we had several that visited us regularly. There was a momma deer and her doe, a second...

Now that winter has set in, it’s time to start making plans for next year on the farm. One of the things I’ve been wanting to do for a...

We’ve come full circle with our adventures in turkey raising this year, and what a ride it’s been! On May 25th, Eleanor hatched eight...

The answer to the question “Why is there a chicken in the greenhouse?” makes perfect sense to me. One of Ramon’s ladies, Henny, was...

At the end of summer, I always look forward to fall, thinking that it will be nice when things slow down and it’s not so busy at the...

I am happy to report that our three beehives, Hive Rosalind, Hive Rosemary, and Hive Buttercup, all did well this year. We started our...

Summer is winding down here at the farm, and as I write this I am sitting by a cozy fire in the wood stove watching the rain clouds move...

We had a bumper crop of apples this year, and everyone else we know did too. Of course the peak of the apple harvest was during a hot...