This past week has been pretty busy. We had work done on the house through mass save, which took a full 6 days. The hope is that now the house and the finished space of the barn is better insulated and will help lower our energy bills (especially oil) and just overall be more comfortable.…

Last week we learned that we have a plum tree! we have a crab apple tree! ticks survive the washing machine… we have asparagus!

I wrote a blog post the other day, but then I took it down. I find that when I go to write a blog post, I end up writing in this weird formal way that doesn’t totally feel like myself, and it feels kind of dumb to be doing this if every post is just…

Wow, it is hard to keep up with a blog. It’s not as if things aren’t happening, or I don’t have things I want to say, but sometimes everything is just moving so quickly it feels like there isn’t time to reflect on anything. Jeremy and I are in the throes of farm-hunting. Throes is…

In a lot of the farm business planning workbooks and guides, they talk about identifying your *why* of farming. It has been a really helpful exercise to think through that, and also what my ideal looks like. Why do I want to farm? What does my ideal look like? I know this will keep evolving,…

Jeremy and I are starting our farm search and I am so excited. I’m using the term farm a bit loosely – there’s a lot we don’t know, and where we end up will be a combination of what we feel we can handle and what becomes available. As of right now, we’re looking for…

Over the past year I’ve been doing a lot of reflecting on what my life is like now and what I’d like it to look like five years from now. As it is with most people, a lot has happened in the past four years. In 2020 I became single for the first time in…