Peony Season

Peony Season

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...
Spring Blooms

Spring Blooms

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...
Easter Weekend

Easter Weekend

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...
Looking Toward the Season

Looking Toward the Season

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...
The Sugar Shack

The Sugar Shack

We’ve been tapping our sugar maple trees and making syrup for the past 6 years. We started with a stock pot over a flame, progressed to a homemade barrel evaporator and have finally settled into our permanent maple syrup home with the build of a sugar shack....
Building the Garden

Building the 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...
January

January

Hello friends, it’s been awhile. I never intend to go so long without posting but it so often just feels like I’m writing into a void, I recently read that blogs have completely died and that was a bit of a discouragement! January is usually a quiet time...
Favorite Things #6

Favorite Things #6

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...
Our 2nd Holiday Market

Our 2nd Holiday Market

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...
Guinea Fowl

Guinea Fowl

We recently added guinea hens to the farm and I’m completely obsessed with them! Guineas have a reputation for being loud, ugly and very wild but I have found them to be mesmerizing to watch and their noise hasn’t bothered me at all. Also, the fact that...