Dull November
Dull November brings the blast, then the leaves are whirling fast. Susan Coolidge Dull. As Aneliese’s rhyme of the month describes, that about sums up November for me. It’s quite honestly a difficult month for me. It’s grey, grey, grey with only brief glimpses of...
A Day in the life of a Homesteading Mama
In the spring and summer months, our days are filled with gardening, chickens, riding, milking, building, visitors, photographing weddings, and the occasional day at the beach snuck in. Right now though, while Dan is still going hard with family and grad photography,...
31 Days of Nature Walks: Close to Home (Guest Post)
{Guest Post by Lola Brown} This year, our summer was full. Jammed to the absolute max. We moved, renovated our old house, settled in to our new farm house, built fences, accumulated animals (rapidly), raised and slaughtered our food and then quickly changed gears...
31 Days of Nature Walks: On a Sunny Afternoon
We are getting to the end of the really warm days of fall and still haven't even close to finished ticking off our list of to be done before winter. Monday is Dan's Saturday where we putter around the yard and house working on the various jobs that need doing....
31 Days of Nature Walks: Kids, Apples, Ponies
We've done it before. All three girls riding at once I mean. Putting Aneliese and Kathleen in the saddle with Cecily in the doubler while I lead our pony, Max, means that we can leave the pasture and visit the trails. We don't move particularly quickly but it's a fun...
31 days of Nature Walks-Marking the Boundaries
We've been working on getting our back woods fenced in for our cows. Highlands are especially good at foraging and we've noticed that they often seem to head for the rougher growth before tackling the green grass. We're hoping that in time they will even create paths...
My girls in September
After a cold, rainy day, it warmed up in the evening and we all needed to get outside. We're trying to slowly get all of our seven acres fenced in to give the cattle more grazing space so that was the evening plan for Dan and we all decided to join him whether to...
Chores Together
Dan & I have talked about wanting to do a video of morning chores together and so were pretty excited to have Lola join us one morning. Most morning we all go out together and we move slowly but it is seriously one of my most favorite parts of our day and family....
Garden; July 4, 2013
Between rain, chickens, weeds, and sun burn, the garden has been a bit frustrating this year. I've lost track of how many things I've had to replant since my first update but it's more than I like to think about. That said, with the sun from the past couple of days, a...
Farm Journal Edition: A Broody Hen
I actually have a note book that has a section to journal my garden and a section to journal farming. I thought that it seemed like a fun idea to share bits of that here every now and again. Baby animals are a particularly delightful part to share. Much more...
The unromantic side of farm life. (A post without pictures)
I had many plans of posting this week, really I did. We took a beautiful trip to PEI to celebrate the marriage of our friend Erin. An absolutely beautiful wedding, Dan did the photography so if you want to see some photos, go here, they are pretty gorgeous. Once we...
A morning with Kathleen
A few weeks ago, when we dug out the spring/summer clothing, we found the little rain boots that were just Kathleen's size. It didn't take her long to catch on that they allow her to march through even the muck comfortably. With this discovery, she has become an eager...
The Family Milk Cow
We've somewhat settled into having a milk cow and I thought that I’d share a post (or two or three) on the addition of a milk cow to our farm and I figured that I better do it before I got really comfortable so that I’d remember all those newbie,...
Farming with Children
Our lives just received an added slight interesting dynamic for the next while. It was a beautiful sunny spring day and as Dan had the morning off, we spent it outside doing the spring hen house clean out, turned the garden, and played with compost. The girls were in...
Sunday Gratitude
It's been a bit hard week, not terrible just hard. We've had the stomach flu and between three sick girls and mama (all at the same time), the laundry overflowed and Dan was kept hopping. I'm a bit of a wimp at times so I felt like I was never going to feel better and...