There have been two big changes on the farm this week. The first is our new greenhouse–we were finally able to purchase the plastic and pull it on this week!!! We are about two months behind our desired time frame on this since we were putting this together piece by piece with extra funds as [...]
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Time changes things
Posted in changes, children, family, farm, farming, greenhouse, home, tagged family, farming, home, mother on April 30, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Moment of Bliss
Posted in children, family, farm, gratitude, nature, spring, weather, tagged family, farming, gratitude, home, mother, nature, seasons, spring, weather, wild harvested on March 31, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The rain has been relentless this week. Our bottom field is flooded all the way to the river again, the third time this year. This is seasonally wet ground, so the flood doesn’t do any harm for now since we don’t expect these fields to be dry until sometime in May. Still, a full fledged [...]
Springing forward
Posted in changes, farm, farming, rapini, spring, tagged farming, rhythym, seasons, spring on March 11, 2012 | 1 Comment »
With just a little over a week until the SPRING!! equinox, the farm is coming to life again. The greenhouse is full of baby plants, seeds have been sown in the ground, and although there is still quite a bit of time in the day for the farmer to work in the shop on some [...]
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 »
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 [...]
Looking for spring
Posted in changes, children, family, farm, farming, nature, spring, tagged family, farming, homeschooling, nature study, spring on February 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Today was so brilliant! It was decidedly sunny and that sun felt so good. The kids and I spent nearly all day outside. We started out there this morning with songs and times tables, and after a quick trip inside to do some writing, we happily returned out of doors for picnics and stories and [...]
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