WHAT WE’RE DOING.
We realized recently that we haven’t written much about what Hannah and I are actually DOING this year to make money. Last year we ran a CSA in Danville, but this year, because we are trying to focus...
View ArticleFRIDAYS.
Fridays are crazy around here. Friday is harvest day, and it sometimes takes just that – all day. We are up early to beat the heat, battling the wind and sun and struggling to keep our veggies from...
View ArticleLITTLE BY LITTLE.
After nearly every evening move, Eric and I like to take a moment to pause and watch the cattle graze. One such evening, Eric was musing about how relieved he was that he hadn’t had the money to buy...
View ArticleWHERE WE LIVE.
According to our mailing address, we live in Gamaliel, Kentucky – pronounced by the locals as “GUH-MAY-YUH.” But we are not technically within the city limits – we are on the far outskirts of town, in...
View ArticleTHE SIMPLE JOY OF FIRE.
I came down into the hollow and saw the lightly smoldering pile of ashes with a couple of the Smith’s children gathered around. A day or so before, a large heap of branches had been burned in that spot...
View ArticleTHIS & THAT.
Some random photos from the past week. The last harvest of sweet corn….sadddddd. Some experiments in sun drying going on in our high tunnel. Opal and Livi glitterized this poor little snail with some...
View ArticleLAMBMOWERS.
Mid-summer every year, our neighbor’s at Bugtussle take the rams out of their flock of ewes to avoid having sheep born from December through February––a harsh time to be a baby on the farm. And every...
View ArticleSAMPLE CHAPTER.
With Book Two of Bringing Wine Home poised to come out in about a month-ish, I wanted to post a sample chapter from Book One to hopefully entice a few more people to join the story! Copies are...
View ArticleFAMILY BEANS.
The other day we went over to our neighbor’s house on an exciting invitation: they wanted to give us some of their “Holder Bean Seed“––”Holder” being their last name. These are beans they’ve been...
View ArticleLOUISVILLE.
We are heading back to the farm today…..and we are so ready. We had a perfect vacation: plenty of relaxing, over-the-top amazing food, making lots of new friends and visiting with all our favorite...
View ArticleHOME AGAIN.
It’s been quiet on the blog for the past week, mostly because we are home and no longer have the internet everyday! It was straight back to work – baling hay, popping and planting garlic, hauling the...
View ArticleFAVORS AND NEIGHBORS.
I was standing in the garden cultivating as best I could despite the heat. It was only May, but no one told the weather. The air was blistering hot, lingering somewhere between ninety degrees and fire....
View ArticleTHE NEXT DRAFT.
Jesse and I have always tried to focus on the long-term goals we have for the future – our holistic goals. These are the goals that we have set not just for our farm, but also for our future finances,...
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