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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘winter’
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 »
The first seeds are sown!
Posted in changes, cycles, farm, farming, nature, spring, winter, tagged farming, nature, seasons, spring, winter on February 1, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Somewhere deep inside of us all, the cycles of the seasons live. I know for our own little family, living here on the farm has awakened our own awareness of this quite a bit. But I believe that for all of us, our bodies and minds and our actions and energies participate in the cycle [...]
January through the lens
Posted in children, cycles, farm, farming, home, winter, tagged family, farming, home, seasons, winter on January 28, 2012 | 2 Comments »
A small look at what our month has been full of: yo-yo’s keeping warm with new Christmas hats from Grandma sunny (and wet) winter harvests and yummy winter meals rain and rain and floods wet explorations, loads of splashing, and oh so much puddle jumping baby goat joy and tragedy and many hours of learning, [...]
Happy Solstice!
Posted in winter, tagged winter on December 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »
While some say it is the first day of winter, for me it is more like mid-winter. This morning, saying hello to that winter sun, I knew that each day henceforth would be brighter. So Winter, though snappy and still and blanketing our farm as you are today, really your grip has loosened.
Let your heart be light
Posted in children, home, winter, tagged family, home, seasons, winter on December 18, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday, the day I planned to take a holiday photo of all of my beautiful 1,000–I mean4!–children happened to also be the day that our oldest child’s face was puffed up like a balloon and covered in a terrible poison oak rash. Needless to say, that photo wasn’t an option. He is gradually getting better; [...]


