it’s a Memorial Day tradition

For us here at Spring Mill Farm, Memorial Day is often associated with two things – making hay and a day at Lake Gaston. Due to late week storms, we’re late on starting the hay making process (and thus, will not be at the lake on Memorial Day).  HB spent Saturday afternoon cutting hay, and [...]

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Keeping it Local on Valentine’s Day

Valentine’s Day is quickly approaching and in case you need a few ideas of thing to do or places to eat this weekend in the Lynchburg area, I thought I would share my favorites. Events Saturday, the Lynchburg Community Market is host to the 3rd Annual Chocolate Challenge.  I blogged about this earlier in the [...]

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the new girls

After a whirlwind trip, we’re back in Virginia with the latest, lovely additions to the farm – our new goats!  The trip was pretty uneventful, but somewhere in the last leg of the trip we blew a tire.  Luckily(?) the trailer has two axels, we blew a front tire and we didn’t even know it [...]

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Merry Christmas!

photo taken 12-20-2009

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The Goats’ 12 Days of Christmas

Dear Blog Readers, As a special treat, Sweet Roll and Donut have asked to wish you a Merry Christmas in their own special way.  I hope you enjoy On the first day of Christmas my owner gave to me a pile of old dried leaves! On the second day of Christmas my owner gave to [...]

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O Christmas Tree

Since HB and I started living together three years ago, I’ve insisted every year that we go to a tree farm and cut down our Christmas tree.  It’s been a fun tradition we’ve started. Last weekend we went over the river and through the woods to Nelson County, home of  Kris Kringle’s Tree Farm.  We [...]

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Time Off, New Look

Obviously, the blog has a new look.  Welcome, my friends, to the newly-revamped, but always the same, Cornbread and Chickens. My work schedule was arranged this week so that I have the pleasure of having Thursday and Friday off.  In return, I have to work Saturday, which will mean an early, quick trip to the [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving!

We just pulled our turkey from the oven and boy! does it look delicious!  My husband, a dedicated Good Eats fan, used Alton Brown’s turkey recipe as a guide. A lot of cooking has been going on at the in-law’s, but down here in the barn, the turkey’s finished, the cranberry relish is chilling, the [...]

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Keeping it local this Thanksgiving

Last Saturday afternoon we piled into the car and headed to Gretna for a visit to Our Father’s Farm.  The farm, owned by the Fuhrmann family, is an 1800′s tobacco farm-turned family farm that raises cattle and poultry for meat, milk, and eggs.  We met the Fuhrmann’s a few months ago at the community market [...]

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Double, double toil and trouble

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) from Macbeth A dark Cave. In the middle, a Caldron boiling. Thunder. Enter the three Witches. 1 WITCH. Thrice the brinded cat hath mew’d. 2 WITCH. Thrice and once, the hedge-pig whin’d. 3 WITCH. Harpier cries:—’tis time! ’tis time! 1 WITCH. Round about the caldron go; In the poison’d entrails throw.— Toad, [...]

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