Saturday mornings, for the last year and a half, have been off to market days for us. Our little town has been blessed with the opportunity to build a thriving year round farmer’s and artisan’s market, and having somewhere to bring winter produce to sell during the off months of our CSA program is really [...]
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Saturday morning
Posted in challenges, community, CSA, farm, farmer's market, farming, greenhouse, local food, mcminnville, pests, seasonal eating, winter, tagged community supported agriculture, farming, seasons, winter on February 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Golden, Brown, and Green
Posted in challenges, cycles, duality, gratitude, nature, thanksgiving, tagged autumn, gratitude, seasons on November 6, 2011 | 3 Comments »
All around the farm, the golden brown of autumn surrounds us. Summer plants have died and are in various states of decay, the leaves are well on their way, shouting out in bright yellow before falling quiety to the ground. Always on this farm, we live up close and personal with this cycle–the cycle of [...]
Stumbling into Fall
Posted in challenges, changes, children, cycles, fall, family, farm, gratitude, Halloween, home, tagged autumn, family, home, homeschooling, rhythym, seasons on October 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I actually shudder to admit that this great slowing down time on the farm, the wonderful quieting of that raucous din that is summer around here, is proving to be neither quiet or slow after all. September came, and suddenly I am so busy with homeschooling and activities for the kids and trying to squeeze [...]
Making Do
Posted in challenges, children, family, farming, home, summer, tagged family, farming, gratitude, home, rhythym, seasons, summer on September 25, 2011 | 2 Comments »
After waiting patiently through an entire summer, we finally made it to the beach as a family a few weekends ago. And much like the time until then was filled with many good intentions to get there that never worked out, the trip itself went nothing like we had planned. The camping the night before–scratched. Because really, we should have known better than [...]
Our escape
Posted in challenges, children, family, farming, gratitude, home, nature, summer, tagged family, gratitude, mother, summer on August 1, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Sometimes, the best way to turn it all around is this. I hate that the stress of a challenging farming year can spill over into our family lives, but it does,and that’s just the thing about stress…it doesn’t know when to close the door itself unless we manage to muster the strength and shut it ourselves. [...]
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