Summer Choices July 31, 2012 Tags: radical homemaking, sustainable agriculture, family farming, Tuesday Post Rain has fallen here nearly every day for the past week, offering welcome refreshment from this summer’s drought. Several hours of steady deluge Sunday had serious implications indoors. Comforters, blankets and pillow cases were pulled from the beds, sheets were stripped, […]
Archives for July 2013
Blueberries
From Here
Joe* didn’t come to our farmers’ market booth last year because he wanted meat. He needed Bob to weave him a pack basket for trapping. In the course of our conversation, we learned he and his wife grew up in rural Pennsylvania, but he had been making a living as an auto mechanic in the […]
In Good Company
Just feeling grateful this morning that they have each other.
While I was Sleeping
In the rush and chaos that seems to define our lives during the growing season, I forget sometimes to stop and appreciate the things that emerge from Bob’s hands, working in the stillness of the night, while the rest of us sleep. Sometimes, a quiet moment to create can restore our bodies more than slumber […]
Happy Pigs
“Pardon me, but are your children home-schooled?”
“Why, yes,” comes my reply, “how could you tell?”
When A Best Friend Moves Away
I’m not much of a kid person. I’m more of a dog person. You know my type…the woman who stops strangers on the street to coo over their pet; the one who almost always has a four legged co-pilot when driving around town; who, when invited to dinner at someone’s house, is likely to spend […]
Honey Wars, Part III: Bob Strikes Back
For those of you who have been following our bear saga, here is where we are at now: 1. All but one of the hives have been safely relocated to a new home, down on the farm, behind our barn, surrounded by multiple layers of tall, permanent electric fencing: If you are wondering why we […]