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Farming Sorrows
When we started this blog, we promised to share not just the highs of modern-day farming—but the lows too. Last week, we faced one of those lows head-on. A stretch...
Farming Sorrows
When we started this blog, we promised to share not just the highs of modern-day farming—but the lows too. Last week, we faced one of those lows head-on. A stretch...
J.R.’s First Steps and Fifth Generation Dreams
There’s a pair of tiny boots by our front door—mud-caked, scuffed on the toes, and almost always on the wrong feet. They belong to our son, John Robert. We call...
J.R.’s First Steps and Fifth Generation Dreams
There’s a pair of tiny boots by our front door—mud-caked, scuffed on the toes, and almost always on the wrong feet. They belong to our son, John Robert. We call...
One Chicken, Five Meals — Stretching a Pasture-...
There’s something special about bringing home a whole chicken from a local farm. Not the plastic-wrapped kind you toss into your grocery cart on autopilot—but a bird that was raised...
One Chicken, Five Meals — Stretching a Pasture-...
There’s something special about bringing home a whole chicken from a local farm. Not the plastic-wrapped kind you toss into your grocery cart on autopilot—but a bird that was raised...
A Summer Reflection
Much of this spring has felt like a trip through an Irish shire — constant, unrelenting clouds bringing with them an overabundance of rain. We’re holding onto the old adage:...
A Summer Reflection
Much of this spring has felt like a trip through an Irish shire — constant, unrelenting clouds bringing with them an overabundance of rain. We’re holding onto the old adage:...
The Nine Minute Rule, Farm Style
Spring and summer bring a special kind of busyness to the farm. Calving season, rotational grazing, haymaking, farmers markets, mowing, gardening—you name it, it’s happening. And when you’re running the...
The Nine Minute Rule, Farm Style
Spring and summer bring a special kind of busyness to the farm. Calving season, rotational grazing, haymaking, farmers markets, mowing, gardening—you name it, it’s happening. And when you’re running the...
The Rebirth of Spring
Grass shoots from the once-frozen brown sod. Lifeless limbs explode with vitality as buds prepare for the coming leaves. A heavenly chorus of peepers rings out from the farm ponds....
The Rebirth of Spring
Grass shoots from the once-frozen brown sod. Lifeless limbs explode with vitality as buds prepare for the coming leaves. A heavenly chorus of peepers rings out from the farm ponds....