SIX! Our May Day baby turned six this year, it is hard to believe. She is such a vivid, spirited, and joyous girl. The night she was born, and actually from the moment of her conception, she has filled the room, her presence is as intense as it is loving and as strong as it [...]
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The birthday girl
Posted in children, family, home, tagged daughter, family, home, mother, parenting on May 4, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Time changes things
Posted in changes, children, family, farm, farming, greenhouse, home, tagged family, farming, home, mother on April 30, 2012 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
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 [...]
Rainy Days
Posted in children, family, gardening, home, spring, weather, tagged family, home, seasons, spring, weather on March 28, 2012 | 10 Comments »
Last week the weather went from snow to glorious-the angels-are-singing-and-I-will-stay-outside-and-move-compost-and-plants-way-past-dinnertime-sun in one day. That sun was pretty much gone by Sunday, but for the few days it was here we reveled. The last few days have been rainy and feel a little like a let down even when they are not unexpected. After a few [...]
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 [...]
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