Lavender

Lavender

We have 5 rows of lavender planted on the east side of the garden and for the month of June it’s a place of beauty, a favorite hangout for the bees, and a perfumery for the entire garden- especially if it’s humid! We planted each row (varieties are:...
Our Greenhouse!

Our Greenhouse!

I’ve always loved the idea of a beautiful greenhouse. Back in 2016 when we first laid out our initial garden plan, we included the chicken coop, the shed and a greenhouse. At the time, we thought we would build the greenhouse ourselves out of old windows and...
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...
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...