Farming
Stocking a Hobby Farm First-Aid Kit: What to Buy
If you’re keeping pets or livestock (or thinking about beginning to), one of the first things that needs to be in place is a first aid kit. Larger farms usually have this system tuned to perfection, as it can save…
How We Keep Our Hobby Farm Organized & Clean
If you don’t count the first five years of my life, I am a country kid. I mean, my access to animals was limited, but we did live beside a farm, so I spent a lot of time trying to…
Farmer Meets Death
When I started this whole thing, no one told me much about the death. There was a lot of talk about chicks and ducklings, a fuzzy lamb or two. A crisp glass of white wine at the end of a…
The Unmaking of a Farm
Have you ever wanted to hold on to something that brought you to tears? Maybe it made you bleed. Perhaps it was dangerous. Or how about this: every day that you did it reminded you of how bloody futile morality…
August Farm Harvest: The Best Time To Do a Juice Detox
August is a great time to hit reset if you’re a gardener—almost everything you need is coming up in the garden, lowering your costs! It’s also usually around this time in the season that I feel like I’ve lost all…
Top Ten Flowers to Grow from Seed (When Starting a Cut Flower Garden)
We started this whole farm venture with vegetables (I mean, if you don’t count the horses, pigs and chickens…). As we get a little further into the farm, we’ve decided to add cut flowers to the mix. We look forward…
May Essay: On Why I Chose Country Living
I’ve always had my life mapped out. I used to plan it out as a way to put myself to sleep-to drive myself forward. I designed it as I slept, a world where everything could be certain. Where everything was…
The Reality of Catching COVID
I thought I had dodged it. I was so far removed from the realities of COVID in our country utopia that I could very nearly pretend that it wasn’t a part of my world. When in reality, I think it…
Planting Garlic: When is it too late?
I have run into this dilemma for a couple of years now—garlic planting. I get going in my little hurricane here at the farm and I forget all about garlic. Then winter is around the corner and I can pretty…
Farmer Christmas Gift Guide: For Her
Okay, okay. Christmas is here. I love this time of year, but truth be told, a lot of the magic comes from having your peas in a pod way before Christmas Eve rolls around. I like to have everything wrapped…
