“Wherefore the farm?” Which, as all my high school Shakespeare students from my past life quickly learned, means not “WHERE is the farm?” (it’s in Linville, gorgeous Central Shenandoah Valley Virginia), but “WHY the farm?” I get this question often.…
[Editor’s note: click here and listen to Dock Boggs as a backdrop to this seasonal real-life horror story.] This time of year as the days grow shorter, the corn drier, the leaves brighter and the nights crisper, many farmers’ thoughts…
I had to pull my first goat last night. Four goats were born already that afternoon, and triplets had appeared the day before. I guess they wanted to get on the ground before the wind and rain of the weekend…
It’s been snowing a lot lately. It’s been eight years–nine years!! since we’ve seen any snow, except for a shrinking glacier when we climbed Mount Kenya right after Christmas in 2015. While we lived in Kenya and Ethiopia we usually…
Make that 72. Not in a bush, in an actual incubator that I bought at the Rockingham Co-op. I’m going to try to hatch out these little blue gems and raise my own baby quail! Quails! I’ve had quail (or…
After painstakingly preparing a plowed field for planting teff, we neglect it for a week. Guess what happens.
No. Real Farmers work ten hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. If they want to take a break, they invite a bunch of people over and have a work party. We’re not Real Farmers yet,…
Quick update on our asparagus patch. This week we added the recommended four inches of mulch to discourage weeds and to maintain moisture. Baby asparagus need an inch of water per week. We kept this in mind when we chose…
This happened today. Three. Blue. I’ve never been so excited about quail as I am right now! But I’ve only known about quail, personally, for a few weeks. Did I mention we have 20 quail in our garage? Is it…
…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…