I don’t write often in this space, but when I do, it tends to be the time of year when we are pulling away winter’s icy grip and looking towards spring. This is the season of hope. I plant seeds in March, and sometimes it feels like the only thing that gets me through. Seeds […]
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Monday (early May) This year, the swallows returned the first week of May. There were just two at first, then the others came a few days later. They perch in the dying apple tree and chatter away, swooping low over the fields and dive bombing the cats. They fill my heart. We still only have
Grow your own botanical color at home! Call it a character trait, but I have never shied away from doing things the hard way. Like many other women in their 30s, born at a time before the internet but coming of age during the techie revolution, I’m drawn to the old world ways: homesteading, cooking
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On my family’s farm, the sun sets over the mountains and rises over the ponds, its morning rays glimmering through the apple trees that have stood on the eastern edge of our land for a century. I learned to orient myself from an early age, knowing which way was north, south, east, or west was
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Everything we do here on the farm is in some way a learning experience. No two seasons are the same. And if we mess up, we have to wait patiently a whole year before we can put our newfound knowledge to good use. Some call it trial and error. I call it learning the hard
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