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This Farming Life 6.29.13
We are eight weeks into our farmers market and CSA season. Thank you so much for being a part of the past two months of growing, eating, reading, supporting, and exploring with us. You are appreciated!...
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This Farming Life 7.5.13
If you have not yet noticed, we are officially in tomato season. In the gentle morning light of this day, we are harvesting yellow sungold, red cherry, black cherry, red and striped roma, purple...
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This Farming Life 7.12.13
Between 1979 and 1997, the great poet and agrarian Wendell Berry wrote poems every Sunday morning. It was his Sabbath ritual to observe the world around him, in an almost walking meditation. His poems...
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This Farming Life 8.2.13
Beginning this Sunday August 4th is a week long celebration of National Farmers Market Week. If you are interested in supporting local farms and food producers, and savoring the best seasonal food...
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This Farming Life 8.9.13
While cleaning onions on the top floor of our dilapidating red barn this past week, our conversations ran the gamut from deep intense philosophy, to political consumerism, to the value of community...
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This Farming Life 8.23.13
The past two weeks have been a hive of activity at our farm! From seeding and transplanting new crops, to cleaning, weeding, and preparing new beds–August is definitely the month to prepare for new...
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This Farming Life 8.30.13
On this last Friday morning of August, the air is cool, sweet, and full of moisture. Beyond the tree line of the woods the sky is dancing with hues of pale pink and buttery gold sunlight. Birds are...
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This Farming Life 9.13.13
It is clearly time for Sriracha sauce (or commonly known as rooster sauce). Why? Because our jalapeño peppers are bright red and fiery hot! Local renowned chef Greg Johnson made some a few weeks ago...
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This Farming Life 10.4.13
I love the opening paragraph in Native American author and musician Joy Harjo’s poem Perhaps the World Ends Here. She says “The world begins at a kitchen table. No matter what, we must eat to live.” I...
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This Farming Life 10.11.13
The recent Prairie Festival (hosted annually by Kansas-based The Land Institute) drew more than 1,200 delegates. According to a New York Times journalist, it has become “a Mecca for those whose...
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This Farming Life 12.13.13
Last week, I spent two wonderful days at the annual Young Farmers Conference, hosted by the Stone Barns Center for Agriculture. The conference draws young and old beginner farmers from across the...
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Winter Wonderland!
A few photographs of snow on the farm, captured on January 22nd, 2014. From the back porch of our house. Collards and scallions covered in a blanket of snow. Through the garden gate. Our front yard....
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This Farming Life 1.24.14
This is our first weekly email for 2014, and thus it is appropriate to say, Happy New Year! We hope that this year will bring you many moments that will take your breath away, offer you abundant...
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More Powder.
Another day of snow at the farm. A wonderful little poem by Dorsey Baker, Winter is Just A Snowflake. melting snow flake disappear a long time before it touch Mother Earth- touching only another snow...
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This Farming Life 1.31.14
With more snowfall earlier this week, our farm was once again covered in a blanket of soft, powdery snow. On the radio, several news programs reported how towns and cities in the South east struggled...
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This Farming Life 2.7.14
As you might know by now, we are food growers, As such, we sometimes read agriculture-related news items, as we did this week – which follow here. There’s the thoughtfully crafted pieces in issue four...
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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 2.21.14
Two Fridays ago, on a cold, quiet, and crisp morning in East Lansing, Michigan, President Brack Obama signed into law the Agriculture Act of 2014 (a.k.a. 2014 U.S. Farm Bill). East Lansing is home to...
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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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