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This Farming Life 2.14.14
Happy Valentine’s! Instead of a written farm update, we’ll allow the photographs to do the talking about our week. New seedlings growing beautifully! A gorgeous sunrise. Beets in the house! And then...
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This Farming Life 2.28.14
The cold, crisp morning air of the past week brought a bite that gnawed at exposed skin–ears, fingers, and nose. It also brought with it the first sighting of a small group of three valiant geese...
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This Farming Life 3.14.14
Spring is on her way. Believe it. We hear her in the whispers of the wind and in the thunderous singing of the frogs in our pond at night. We smell her in our dark sandy loam topsoil and in the mature...
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This Farming Life 3.21.14
Happy spring! May this season provide work for your hands and heart. May it take you by surprise and delight when you least expect. May this spring bring renewed thought, commitment, and action. At our...
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This Farming Life 1.30.15
A young white guy in a blue denim shirt’s framed portrait hung on the wall in the narrow foyer of my childhood home when I was growing up. My father loved him and later, I too came to love him. For...
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This Farming Life 2.6.15
The temperature inside our small hoop house was just under sixty degrees Fahrenheit this past Wednesday morning. More toasty than expected for this time of year in our solar heated germination house!...
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This Farming Life 2.13.15
This Farming Life is a journey of living in right relationship with ourselves, the land, and our wider community. It is a journey that caresses the valleys of difficult days and marvels at the peaks...
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This Farming Life 3.13.15
I don’t want to jinx it but I think spring is on her way. I hear her in the rhythmic frog songs at night in the pond. In the chirp of the birds at sunrise outside our bedroom window. In the boldness...
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This Farming Life 5.1.15
It’s raining this morning. The kind of rain that comforts. And I imagine that our plants must love it. How this gentle rain stroke their bodies just so. How it soaks the soil without washing it away....
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This Farming Life 6.12.15
“Is this the farm that writes the blog?” the sweet woman asked me when she stopped at our booth at the farmer’s market on Tuesday afternoon. To which I replied “indeed, it is.” She had heard about us...
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