Category Archives: Family

all is quiet on the farmstead

The rain is pattering on the skylights, lucia is upstairs listening to Pippi Longstocking, isaac is snuggled asleep on the couch, dan is even asleep on our bed after a 10-hour round trip drive to his cousin’s wedding on Long Island last night and returning home at 3am. We had an amazing day yesterday. Alyssa,…

journal entry day

The spring feels like it is real…because of the rain, because farmer’s markets are opening up this weekend, because we have lambs bouncing around, because plants are begging to be transplanted, because I finally got my screens up and hung a makeshift laundry line!! We put our potatoes in the ground right on schedule with…

May festival a great success!

Thanks to everyone who came out on Saturday to help us celebrate Spring and all of our wonderful new lambs, AND the opening of our new farm store. By no official count, we’d put the number of attendees somewhere between 75 and 100. Great. Just right. Next time we’ll be even more prepared and put…

The SUN is finally here

As I sat at the supper table I could feel the sun still in my cheeks from our work today. I looked at Lucia curled in her grandma’s lap and Isaac ‘brumming’ his little metal tractor along the chair rail. This is warmth that is left in me at the end of a good work…