Today we broke ground. I stood with shovel in hand, trying to make out the borders of the long forgotten garden beds, now just gentle hummocks, engulfed by Creeping Buttercup (Ranunculus repens). I leaned my weight onto the spade and felt a smooth, gratifying...
We didn’t want to rush in, so we waited almost a month. And we wanted to start small, this being our first foray into mammalian livestock, so we bought Nigerian Dwarf goats (they actually prefer “Nigerian Little People Goats)”. We got a book...
We apologize for the lack of writing. What can we say, we’ve been BUSY! Our wonderful and amazing farmhouse and 40 acres was an estate sale. For that reason, it had a few decades worth of legacy in the form of books, tools, trinkets, yard implements...
We close on our new home tomorrow, and let me tell you how confident we are that the deal’s going to go down…We’ve paid in full for seven ducks and put a deposit down on three goats. And not from the butcher shop. Kathleen, our current landlord,...
In sailing terminology “Ready About” is the command given before the skipper turns and tacks the sailboat. In the coming week, Mark and I are doing exactly that. We’re preparing to turn this boat towards land, and towards a new home....
