Jun 8, 2023 | Farm, Flowers
As peony season comes to a close, I’m finally taking a breath to look back on it. It’s been such a busy season, but also the best peony season yet on the farm. We had hundreds of blooms and keeping up with harvesting them was often comical. While we...
Apr 28, 2023 | Farm, Flowers
The difference outside from a month ago is actually extraordinary and if I hadn’t just looked at photos I took exactly one month apart I wouldn’t even believe it. In that amount of time, the daffodils have come and mostly gone, the flowering trees have...
Apr 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
We were lucky enough to have beautiful weather this past Easter weekend. The cherry trees, magnolias, narcissus and forsythia are all blooming and I can’t get enough of them. This spring, I’ve longed for some color so the yellows, pinks and chartreuse...
Mar 24, 2023 | Flowers, Garden
As we approach the growing season here in zone 6b I thought I’d share what I’m doing to get ready! The past couple of years, I’ve made a concerted effort to do all of my clean up work in the fall. I’ve found that I enjoy the garden (and the...
Mar 2, 2023 | Farm, Garden
Recently, I was going through photographs from the past few years and came upon pictures of the garden from the very, very beginning! I thought it might be a good idea to share because while I have lots of beautiful photographs of the garden, it decidedly did not...
Jan 10, 2023 | Favorite Things, Tools
This wooden cart by Carts Vermont is one of the first things we bought when we moved to the farm. It has had many uses here from carting things down to the barn for a party, hauling mulch to various spots around the farm, moving dahlia tubers, carting trees and a...
Dec 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
This past weekend, we held our 2nd Holiday Market in the barn! All week I watched the weather as the chances of rain kept creeping up and up until finally it was at 100% chance of rain. Sure enough, we woke up to raindrops on the windows and we had a fairly steady...