Asparagus Ho!
…I said to Bruce when I got the notice from UPS that our 100 dry-root asparagus crowns had shipped. “What’s an asparagus ho?” said Bruce with interest, completely taking my comment out of context. Maybe he was referencing an asparagus…
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In the Days Still Left, We’ll Walk in Fields of Teff
I love farming. No one is more shocked than I am, not even my mother. She used to have to goad me into doing anything physical as a kid. I think I was a pretty unmotivated child. Some might even…
Chicken Run
It’s time to move the chickens. Our 40 chickens diminished to 37, and then last week we found another dead one so we’re down to 36. Then Bruce saw this black snake sprawled across the brooding box trying it’s luck.…
Here We Goat Again
Bruce and I bought most of our little farm about 10 years ago. We had just started raising meat animals–pigs, turkeys, and goats. We had the nondescript variety of goats, bought from relatives and rather casually reproduced. In between the…
So, Now What?
If What’s it like to be back? is the question we get the most, then What are you going to do now? is a close second. We have a farm. So we thought we’d try farming. If looking good on…
There and Back Again
What’s it like to be home? It’s a frequent question we encounter in conversations with folks, some of whom we haven’t seen–or have only seen sporadically–in almost a decade. I mean, what else do you ask a person who just…