Centuries ago, doctors and healers used to believe that there were 4 humors that regulated your body and your health; If your humors were...

Herbs have a mystical and magical quality to those of us who dabble in plants; imagining a plant, a little slip of greenery, flower, or...

I’ve been thinking about hops.  I am not alone in this consideration. People have been pondering the conical flowering vine for...

Some days there is a whole lot of lacka wanna around these parts.  Today is one of those days.  I’ve been putting off writing blog posts...

This year we had rain. A lot of rain.  Not just a little bit for a short while, but a whole summer's worth of rain all summer long.  It...

As the summer is winding down, we are preserving the harvests and beginning to transition our gardens to their slower autumn pace. I...

The thing about having chickens is that there is no right way to have them. Traditionally we have not added heat or light to their coops....

“What nice goats” is a phrase we typically hear about our sheep. How could anyone confuse the two? Probably because our sheep are Jacob...

As everything else in our lives, the process that brought us to farming is complicated and interwoven with lots of ‘other’ stories,...

On our farm we watch the seasons. Each change in weather or bloom heralds both a beginning and the end of things. Every August we wait...