Since I posted about our first Guinea hen egg of the year, those birds have kept us filthy with the things, laying as many as a dozen eggs in one day. It’s been wonderful having fresh, extra rich eggs always…
Being in a bit of a hollow, most of the time our little acreage stays pretty damp and cool. Where the garden is concerned, that climate is a mixed blessing. While we rarely have to irrigate, crops like tomatoes and…
We planted this rhubarb plant at the end of last summer and were thrilled at how rapidly it was growing and filling out this Spring. Then Cory noticed an odd pinkish knot in the middle of it. I thought might…
Ramp season is upon us, and our patches of them seem even more dense and lush than the past two years. Because their season is so short, we tend to harvest more ramps than we can possibly eat before they…
Having had so many eggs stolen toward the end of the last laying season, we were concerned that this season’s would all be spirited away before we had the chance to get to them. Much to my glee, this…
I found these perfect little tracks in the dust on top of the bins we keep our Guinea feed in the other day. I’m not well-versed in identifying animal tracks, but I do have a suspicion that they belong to…
It took a bit longer than I expected, but our cold frames are complete. I wrote about our idea for collapsable cold frames two months ago, with the overly optimistic notion that it would be a weekend project and I…
Yesterday, when, for the second day in a row, I spent several hours outside doing yard work, I was heartened by the sense that Spring had finally arrived. Today I awoke to 4 or 5 inches of snow and despair…that…
This past weekend we ventured to Westport, Connecticut – about an hour from the farm – to attend a class on making willow garden fences. The class was held at Terrain, a beautiful garden shop created by the people behind…
