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What 2 feet of snow means on the farm.
The homesteader doesn’t always get to choose their day. A few times each week (I’m rounding, here) the farm chooses our day for us. There’s part of this uncertainty and unexpected that works in our...
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Sourdough made easy: Keeping, maintaining, and converting to a dry-sourdough...
Here is my starter! Fed, happy, and ready for baking. I feed my starter about once a week. Each batch of starter makes about 5 batches of levain with enough starter left over to feed and begin the...
View ArticleAll the food left in our winter root cellar.
It's not glamorous – all the food left in our winter root cellar. The cabbage leaves have long gone a bit grey and moldy. The leeks are now spotted and slightly shriveled. The onions and garlic are...
View ArticleCome clean the cottage with me!
Come clean the cottage with me! Truth be told, there's hardly a better way (in my opinion) to spend the day than cleaning the cottage. I know. Some of my friends think I'm a sick and twisted...
View ArticleMajor highs and lows of lambing.
It wasn't an easy lambing season. Even on our small farm with just a handful of ewes, you have to face the issues that come – they're inevitable with livestock. We had some major highs and lows of...
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Man the post.
We made it. Barely. Truth be told I slid into March 1st with bloodied fingernails, a bruised ego, and a garbage can full of emotions that need to go to the dump. (Figuratively speaking of course.)...
View ArticlePreserving eggs.
We don't often think about egg's having a season, but they do – and this video is all about preserving eggs! When the days grow longer and warmer and all the little bugs come out of their winter...
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All I had to show for it.
After the last dishes in the sink are scrubbed and tucked away for the night, at least at this time of year, I immediately scurry outside to the gardens. In the heat of the day, the bright light from...
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Copper Cookware: Sourcing, Care, and Maintenance
The copper cookware post. The post that every single person on the entire internet has been begging me to write for the last decade. No? Well at least some of you have. I know because the two questions...
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I learned how to do all of this.
It's been 106 degrees here this week. Scratch that – today, we should hit 109. It happens, every year, and yet each year when the molten air arrives on the wings of late July, it still surprises me...
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Managing Expectations
Managing expectations has never been my strong suit. During the course of our basement remodel, my impossibly pragmatic husband Stuart was constantly reminding me to keep said expectations in check....
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Coming back home changed | Food Travels to Sicily
After a grueling 28 hours of travel back home from Sicily, some of which (I’ll be honest) I spent crying, we arrived weary and worn back on our own doorstep. Praise God, all was well. The chickens were...
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Come Work With Me In The Veg Garden…
I have a favorite kind of free day. I wake up to my husband curled up against my back. He, very kindly, likes to let me know it’s time to get up by gently scratching my back and rubbing my shoulders....
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Gratitude and Rhubarb Curd
As I filmed earlier this week, there was a bucket of compost strewn around my front porch that the rogue ducks had gotten into. Bits of bread, old banana peels, and strawberry tops littered my...
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A Softened Heart
I’ve heard rumors that as one ages, they tend to go one of two ways: Either their edges and tendencies grow sharper, harsher, and more amplified or they soften – desaturated slightly by their life...
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June Cottage Garden Tour
Before we take a June cottage garden tour, let's remember where we began. A plastic deck with a broken hot tub, aluminum railing, and a field of crabgrass were all that surrounded our little home...
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Out with the old, in with the new!
God help me if any of you were to really see my root cellar right now. For likening myself a tidy and kept individual, this cellar is anything but. Spiders have taken over the flat of shallots that...
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Farmer’s Cheese
Hello my friends, It’s been two years in the making for me to share this farmer's cheese post with you. In Spring of 2021, when we were ready to breed our beautiful Jersey cow “Cecelia”, we dropped...
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Summer Berry Hand Pies
It’s easy to idealize farm life. Especially in the fleeting moments where the kids are barefoot and smiling, the old baskets are filled with summer berries, and butterflies dance around the flower...
View ArticleWhy We Eat What We Eat.
Most of our journeys are fairly obscure, aren’t they? Very rarely do they go in a straight and obedient line from Point A to Point B, as much simpler as that would make the experience. My journey to...
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