Month: March 2017

Greenhouse

Feeding ourselves healthy and fresh food was one of the main reasons we decided to farm.  From late spring to late fall that’s an easy achievement as our gardens and (future) food forests are at their peak of production.  Deciding on what to eat for dinner by what looks the most appetizing in the garden is Read More …

Firewood

  It wasn’t too long after we moved into our house that we noticed our neighbor, who already had numerous neatly stacked and covered piles of firewood, was still chopping, splitting, and stacking wood.  One of his many words of wisdom was to have more than enough and to get it early and often. There Read More …

Snow Day!

It took a snow day for me to finish building this website! Working on it was a good excuse to not shovel (thanks for taking care of that, Simon!). Anyway, welcome! A little background on us – my husband, Simon, and I bought a parcel of land in Ulster Park, NY this past April, nearly Read More …