Way back when, we made a deal with the powers that be. If the stars aligned and we were able to keep on growing amazing food for our community, we wouldn’t keep this place for ourselves. We’d share every last bit of it with YOU. This is why we make the time to...
There’s a parcel behind our farm that we have our eyes on. It’s vacant land that the current owner uses to hunt and play on. For as long as we’ve lived here, we’ve imagined ourselves owning it. Not for vanity reasons – I know all too well now that having more...
When your house is old – ours was built in 1846 – you expect to have some surprise encounters with the natural world from time to time. We were still shocked, though, when we renovated the bathroom years ago and discovered that we had unknowingly been...
I’ve been learning more about the victims of the Tops shooting. Every day, I seem to learn more about their life stories and familiarize myself with their names. While I’ve been thinking about whether to share my thoughts on all this with you, deliberating on what to...
You may not have realized it, but it’s happening all around us. Farmers are getting old and they’re tired from all those years of working in the fields and adjusting to fickle markets. They’ve come to accept that their kids aren’t the least bit...
At our farm planning meetings, we always make a list – on the left side we write out all our achievements for the year and on the right side, we list all our disappointments. It takes a few hours for us to compile and color code them with all the solutions and...
