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 [...]
Seeing green (and red)
Posted in children, duality, family, farming, food saftey, home, politics, seasonal eating, spring, weather, tagged family, farming, food politics, history, home, homeschooling, mother, potato famine, seasons, spring, unschooling on March 18, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Everywhere I look, green. At every meal of the day, collard greens and mustard greens and kale greens, alongside dark green kale rapinis and light green turnip rapini. There are some purples working there way in as we harvest wild violets for fun and the sprouting broccoli from the field, and the purple cape cauliflowers [...]
Each time
Posted in children, cycles, family, farming, home, local food, seasonal eating, weather, tagged family, farming, mother, nature, rhythym, seasons on March 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Let me tell you, it is just as fun the fourth time around as the first, second, and third. Each time, it has been equally exciting and amazing. Those first milky smiles and baby coos, the learning to crawl and then those first stumble-y steps…breathtaking. Right now, we are discovering books. We read from 2-3 [...]
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 [...]
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