On the Homestead: Farm

It’s not always glamorous or clean, but at least life on the farm is entertaining, beautiful, and oh-so-delicious. Follow along with recipes, dreams and confessions, and garden growing here.

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Outlander Herbal Salve

If you haven’t read Outlander… and thus the concept of a Outlander herbal salve makes no sense to you… I apologize. Pretend like this is just an herbal salve instead….

Becoming a milkmaid.

Every year (well, at least for the past seven years) it’s happened. One day I’m a normal farmer, filling my days with pulling carrots and planting tomatoes, and the next…

My Cottage Garden: A Tour

Sometimes there aren’t words. Or rather, I’m not the writer skilled enough to string them together. So instead of words, travel along with me today for a tour through my…

Joy in the Spring Garden

I’ve been savoring these beautiful farm days – full of sunshine and all the promises of a beautiful season to come. I received some last minute bare root roses (I…

Food Storage: What we’re still eating from last year’s harvest

We’re still eating a lot from our food storage left over from last year’s harvest. Cabbages, carrots, jams, jellies, preserved meats, parsnips, garlic, fermented vegetables, and more. It reminds me…

Cottage Gardening on a Budget

Cottage gardening on a budget – yes, it can be done! With a little creativity (and a lot of patience), it’s possible to source new plants from all around your…

What to eat at the end of winter.

Just because it’s the end of a long winter doesn’t mean the eating needs to be bad… here’s what we’re filling our plates with this season! Make sure to follow…

Garden Journal (February, 2020)

I’m a horrible garden journaler (spell check is telling me that jouranler is not a word, but it should be). Last year, I made a whopping three journal entries in…

Reflection has always been one of my strengths. Pondering, thinking, overthinking perhaps. As Mayor Bloomberg’s quote on farmers continues to swirl around with Eisenhower’s quote on farmers, now more than…

English Roses you should grow in your garden.

You should know right away that this is not an unbiased post on what english roses you should grow in your garden. In my ten years spent as a florist,…

Complete List of Vegetable Varieties I’m Growing / 2020.

Warning: this is the complete list of vegetable varieties I’m growing this year! This does not include flower varieties. That’s another post for another day. (Probably tomorrow because I’m so…

Eating in Winter from the Root Cellar.

This video, we’re showing you how we’re eating in winter, a very seasonal way of eating, from the root cellar storage that we keep under our kitchen. It’s also the…

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