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One of the side benefits of having a farm and all of this land is that there is a lot of space for scenic photos. And, unbelievably, Willow is now old enough to need senior photos. So, what better combination can you get but a photographer farmer! Here are a few (very few of the very

Often folks ask what I have been up to on the farm over the course of the year. I’m sure they want to know the highlights & big, more interesting things, not about how many holes I’ve dug. While the last couple of years have been big for me, it doesn’t really sho

It’s midday, Wednesday December 10th, with gray skies and some snow flurries. I breathe a sigh of relief while walking across the farm. A nature co-op school group visited this morning for a tour about growing Christmas trees. The young kids were surprisingly inquisitive intersp

Firewood seems to be one of those chores that seems to never end. In January, I handle firewood all day long loading the fireplace to keep the house warm. I burn firewood well into spring, but by February, I have to run back to the farm to load up some more to take back supplement the

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 is for the lawn mowers and the tra

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, or in cover crops than is planted

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 still had a nice field of flowers. L

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 some of you already know, I fell fr

This has been a stunningly dry year. So many times I have watched those predicted storms dissipate right as they passed over our farm. Yet another year or new transplant loss — it’s a good thing we planted extra. But, today, you’d never know we had a drought. The sky