“You just need to go with the flow,” Edge said the other morning as we tried to get a 5 minute conversation in before breakfast ended. The lack of structure to our homeschool routine (or, more accurately, non-routine) had me frustrated and second-guessing just how possible running a farm while homeschooling really is. Not to …
It’s early August, when the kitchen is constantly filled with fresh bouquets, the flower fields are buzzing with pollinators, and each flower harvest is punctuated with a few more blooms going to seed. This is the cycle of flowers, after all: seed, grow, bloom, and set seeds again. But what if you’re not ready for …
August 1st. Summer arrived so late this year that it feels short, and yet here we are: August. The time of year when we oscillate between gratitude for the bounty of harvest and the exhaustion of mounting work. I feel it in the length of to-do lists, harvest lists, and the number of items that …
I gave birth to my son, Waylon, 6 years ago today. We were living in a yurt, and the only farm structures were a sheep barn/seed house, woodshed/outhouse, and yurt. The only “running” water came from a frost-free hydrant in the seedhouse in the middle of the field, and a squeaky hand pump in the …
From a yurt to a whole farm, join me for a farm tour of Good Heart Farmstead. See where we started, how we grow, and what we do on our Vermont organic farm.
Until I started farming, I thought radishes were only for salad bars and grandparents. Granted, the only time I saw radishes were when I went out to eat with my grandparents, and everywhere we went there was a salad bar. With radishes. If I tried them once, I quickly determined that they were too spicy …
