He can’t play the guitar. He can’t do chores. He can’t help me clean the cafe to get it ready to open. Then we remembered how we used to spend those final, restless days of winter, when the sun would shine one moment, and ice, hail and rain would fall from the sky the next, […]
Poor guy.
Yes. I got a lovely poem for my birthday. The other part of the story was that we got to spend the weekend in the ER after Bob fell on the ice while doing chores. He broke his arm in two places. He typed that poem up anyhow, even though his arm was blown up […]
Oh my oh my…
Who says a great Christmas gift can’t also be a tax write-off? For years, Dad wanted an ultrasonic pregnancy tester for the pigs and sheep. Mom fought him on it. “We don’t need to check for pregnancy when we can just see if they come back into heat!” Admittedly, that frugal perspective has kept this […]
Fashion Forward Farmers
We couldn’t send our fashion-loving daughters down to NYC for a month to study clothing design and construction without taking a few field trips into the depths of one of the fashion savviest metropolises in the world. New York doesn’t just do new fashion. It does what Saoirse and Ula love best, which is second-hand, or vintage, […]
Red Sky at Morning
Photo by Pixabay “You can’t miss it if you don’t know it’s gone.” Mom remains her pragmatic, equanimous self as we sit by the tree on Christmas morning after doing chores. She lost a chunk of her memories after a major heart surgery back in 2016. This fall, she’s been in and out of […]
Cafe closed for the rest of the month. Gone for a walk.
For a long time, Bob and I have dreamt of going walking in Ireland. You probably know this story: We never thought we had enough money. We never thought we had enough time. And then a pandemic hit, and a raging flood nearly wiped out our store, and then a shooter put bullets in it. […]
It’s time to order your turkey.
Thanksgiving is only 8 weeks away. We need your turkey orders! Our birds are raised out on fresh pasture, and while Mother Nature typically makes the final decision about how large they’ll grow, we organize them (roughly) into three sizes: Small (usually 15-18 lbs) Medium (usually 19-23 lbs) Large (usually over 23 lbs) They are […]
Watch for your orange flyer
Okay, folks. The lambs are growing, the pigs are getting porky, the last chicken harvest is around the corner, and the turkeys are look great. It’s time to sign up for your Thanksgiving turkeys and your fall and winter CSA shares. Any day now, you should be receiving a bright orange envelope in the mail, […]
My Greatest Teacher
The last time I wore a cap and gown and endured a graduation ceremony was in May of 1993 to accept an associate’s degree in liberal arts. It was a ruthless calculation on my part. I wanted to spend the summer in Argentina. My grandparents would give me a check as a graduation gift if […]
The Multiplier Effect
In grad school, we couldn’t study community development without discussing the multiplier effect. An economic term, the multiplier effect is the increase in economic output that results from a capital infusion. We were taught that it’s a pretty big deal in small, locally-based economies, because of the amount of financial recirculation. That recirculation creates more […]
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