Three Sisters Gardening

As an experiment this year, and partially for fun and curiosity, I have convinced HB to let me devote a small section of the garden towards a “three sisters garden.” The Three Sisters Garden is a method of planting seeds that has its base in Native American civilization.  Many Native American tribes adopted this form of [...]

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Let it rain … into my barrel

I had Wednesday off so HB suggested I head over to the market for Green Market Wednesday and the afternoon’s scheduled rain barrel workshop.  So I did. The first part of the workshop presented a lecture on rain gardens.  Rain gardens are planned depressions in the ground that allow storm water to runoff and collect [...]

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growing like weeds

The goat kids are growing like weeds.  I weighed them the other night, they average around 30 pounds, just over one month old.  Fred and Bogart (Memphis’ kids) are the biggest, and the youngest.  Their bone structure is much more substantial, while Rock and Doris (Abba’s kids) are taller, leaner, but weigh more than you [...]

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emotional swings

I woke up when my alarm went off at 5am, and my first thought was “We should really put Sweet Roll down.”  I spent the next 10 minutes until the snooze went off in a half-sleep, dreaming and thinking about the idea. As frequent readers know, last year Sweet Roll was diagnosed with an autoimmune [...]

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taking a moment

Today, work was just one of those days.  One of those days where you say to yourself, “I’m going home and drinking a beer.”  And here I find myself, not one, but two, beers later. Jenna wrote on Monday about a similar situation.  Maybe without the beer.  She didn’t mention it. I came home this [...]

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Culture magazine

Last fall HB stumbled upon a cheese magazine entitled Culture.  Two copies were given to him by the owners of a local meat & cheese shop.  At $10/each, this wasn’t a cheap gift. HB brought the magazines home and we devoured them.  Great articles, beautiful photographs, and delicious cheeses filled every page.  One of the [...]

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The Cowboy Code

As I ran my mid-day errands (post office, feed store, grocery store) I was listening to NPR’s Here and Now and an interesting segment came up when Robin Young interviewed Brent Hathaway, Dean of the College of Business at the University of Wyoming in Laramie.  You can listen to it here if you like, but [...]

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Signs of Spring!

*My horse, Huck, is starting to shed! *Jacqsonne is slowly increasing her milk production *The young does are starting to fill out their udders *The hen’s egg production is increasing *I can finally seen grass, not snow *The grass I can see is surprisingly green; maybe that’s because it’s  been hiding for two months? *Seed [...]

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It’s quiet around here

Happy Valentine’s Day! We woke up yesterday morning to more snow falling softly to the ground – it’s amazing the amount of snow we’ve received in central Virginia this year. We did our morning chores while snowflakes chased us around the farm.  Luckily, the Chocolate Challenge was still on, just delayed a little bit.  I [...]

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monday musings

George Herbert, a Welsh poet from the 1600s, once said “Every mile is two in winter” and I think he knew a thing or two about cold weather.  A foot of snow on the ground makes doing farm chores just that much harder. I can’t imagine living life without electricity, it’s something I’ve never had [...]

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