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 […]
My Unlikely Friend
Ginny and Vic bought the farm next to Sap Bush Hollow and moved up from Long Island about fifteen years ago, and quickly became a part of our daily life, teaming up with haying, sharing barn space, co-grazing our livestock together. When their daughter, Heather, decided to leave the rat race of her own […]
Tues Post: Taking Time
I’m not much of a drinker, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a time and a place for it. For me, that would be a dirty martini with Bob on the front deck on Saturday evening after our farmers’ market ends. Since our long market day starts early, Bob is absolved from Saturday evening chores, […]
When Society Meets Super-Girl
I woke in the middle of Sunday night under the oppressive heat of two sweaty and hot bodies piled on top of me. Mom and Dad are gone on vacation, so Bob is sleeping down at the farm all this week. Knowing I am quick to pass out in bed at the end of each […]
The Good Life Can be a Messy Life
The Good Life Can be a Messy Life May 21, 2013 Tags: radical homemaking, family farming I woke up this morning and came down to my office. I should have done yoga. I should have meditated. Instead, I fixed my attention on the woodstove. It’s late May, for Pete’s sake, I shouldn’t need a fire. […]
Which God do I Choose?
Which God do I Choose? May 14, 2013 If asked, I’d have to say that my spiritual education began somewhere down by the creek bed on the farm, where as a child I pondered the flow of water as I filled my palms to drink, or the miracle of the wild raspberries that hung over […]
Farm Bill 101
Farm Bill 101 April 23, 2013 Tags: sustainable agriculture, family farming I was invited recently to sit in on animal science class at a college about 10 miles away from my house that has a strong agriculture program. This week, the class was discussing the farm bill, and the students were supposed to be exploring […]
From Homeschooling to Unschooling
From Homeschooling to Unschooling March 17, 2012 Tags: homeschooling, traveling with kids Our new classroom Bob and I didn’t have a clear homeschooling plan when we decided to take Saoirse and Ula to Europe. Truth be told, I suppose it is more accurate to say that we didn’t actually make this decision to come. I […]
Asking For Help
Asking For Help March 5, 2013 Tags: family farming, sustainable agriculture Bob and I acted as though it were completely natural when Sara and Raymond, friends of ours with a CSA about 30 minutes from here, wrote about a month ago and asked us if we’d assist them with a barn-raising at the beginning of […]
But can we feed the world?
Photo by Seth Joel Sooner or later the question comes up, whether it is between two friends sharing a pot of stew made from local grassfed beef and their garden harvest, livestock farmers gathered on a pasture walk, neighbors working together to tend a flock of backyard chickens, or organic vegetable producers discussing yields at […]
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