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Living the EV life

It was a long wait to finally get my hands on an electric truck, but there’s no disappointment here. The 2022 Ford Lightning joins our household fleet to replace my not-so-old gasoline fueled truck. With its retirement, the only gas we need now
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Birds & bees

If you’re familiar with our farm, you probably already know that a major part of our plan is thinking about the whole landscape holistically. We don’t just plant Christmas trees, we are stewards of an ecosystem. More of our land is fallow
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Sunflowers

Often we plant sunflowers fro fun as a cover crop. This year we experimented with making a more permanent bed for cutting sunflowers. Surprisingly, we had very little sun and a lot of rain this summer, so our sunflowers were late in maturing but we s
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Getting back to work in 2023

May 20, 2023 On this spectacular spring Sunday afternoon, I find myself relaxing after a two-week whirlwind of farm work.  Two important things stand out about this moment: one, that I am relaxing, and two, that I am relaxing. Uh, what? As
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