I should be writing a paper, but…

by | Dec 30, 2015 | Animals, Farm, Journal

Well, it has been awhile. My lofty intentions of keeping a blog about our family’s farm extravaganza has not gone as planned. In addition to this farm, I work full-time (well…did… I begin my internships in school counseling soon and will work...

Spring and the mud on my boots

by | May 25, 2015 | Journal

It’s Spring! It is Spring! No more cold! So that means everything is growing! And we have no time to do much else but mow, plant, tend to the animals and the children and all of their activities because the schools and sports have a conspiracy to drown parents...

The inevitable dislike of Winter

by | Feb 20, 2015 | Animals, Farm, Journal

It’s been cold. Frigid. Eyelash, booger-freezing cold. Wind chills of -20 to -30 below at our farm. Maybe if you live in the Midwest this is normal. Maybe if you sit in a house after dark and before daybreak, it’s not a big deal. It’s just winter...

Self-sufficiency

by | Dec 31, 2014 | Farm, Journal

Last night we had OUR beef for the first time. There were a mixture of feelings involved for the kids and us. Eating something we raised, cared for, and loved on for months. On our plates. But in the irony of a mom who doesn’t eat beef, cooking our beef was...