Our three-year-old likes to declare from time to time: “We are a compost family!” This may not serve her well in elementary school, but we think it’s really cute. And true. Dan is known to say “When else can you take something that people consider trash – pure trash! – and turn it into something… Continue reading Compost Love
But not that kind of mushroom party. Inoculating mushroom logs party. Yesterday Dan took down enough trees to have 100 logs, each about 3 ft long, to inoculate with mushroom plugs. We purchase the plugs and by putting them into freshly-downed logs, the fungi that we want to grow has a head-start on naturally occurring… Continue reading Mushroom Party
The other morning I woke up to the strangest sound: a rooster crowing. And I thought – “Now what has my neighbor gone and done – gotten a flock of roosters again (as he did a couple years ago)?” There’s just not much sense in that. But this crowing sounded too close to be floating… Continue reading Hello, Handsome!
…under construction. And he really does wear overalls. Has ever since I met him. This greenhouse should be up and running this weekend. Here’s hoping for less wind than in the past few days so we can manage putting the plastic on!
We used to work on a farm in New Hampshire. This time of year was spent gearing up for Maple Syrup season. And digging out from underneath three or four feet of snow. And harvesting blocks of ice from the pond up to 2 feet thick. Yikes. So we moved to Virginia. Today we moved… Continue reading Sweet Virginia
Broadfork Farm 