by marleen | Oct 5, 2021 | Farming
With this overwhelming sense of worry about climate change, and observing the infighting happening over budgets in the US Congress, we try to focus on solutions close to home. This Guest Commentary piece that Dan sent in to our local newspaper last week... 
by marleen | Apr 22, 2021 | Farming
Have you ever wondered if you’d be able to raise honeybees in your own backyard? The answer, most likely, is yes. When I lived in Queens, NY, I was looking for ways I could learn more farming and homesteading skills while living in the city. On a... 
by marleen | Apr 20, 2021 | Monthly Musings
When I think about spring here at the farm, I think about cuddling the softest lambs, the peepers singing their songs in the wetlands and the joy of watching the land green up after a long winter. It’s all that, it really is. But reality often times looks more... 
by marleen | Mar 23, 2021 | Recipes
It’s officially spring, and the whole farm is shouting it out loud. We are drowing in goat kids and little lambs, the first bulbed flowers are opening, we are woken up each morning in our tent by overly eager phoebes ready for the new day. There is not a time a... 
by marleen | Feb 13, 2021 | Monthly Musings
Oh January.. January at the farm is a month of rest before we start preparing for lambing and kidding, when all animals linger around their barns and shelters and everyone stays put where they are supposed to be. It is curious how the months that are... 