We tend a small orchard here –  35 or so fruit trees planted about four years ago (it astounds us to type out the number four. Could it really have been so many years already??) We don’t intend them to produce fruit for sale – simply fruit for our family to enjoy and preserve for… Continue reading Focus on Fruit Trees; Homeschool Forest Days (& Orders for 2/28)

Notably, today is farm email day and the world outside is not covered with snow! It is also notable that yesterday we finally received the supplies to build our new seedling greenhouse. This was luckily the first time it has ever taken 6 weeks for us to receive an order. Yowzers. (And, no, we aren’t… Continue reading Farm Week 8 (Orders for 2/22/2014)

Our week’s have a particular rhythm around here. It certainly varies with the seasons, but most Fridays are pick-wash-pack days. Saturdays are farmers market and/or delivering CSA orders. Sundays we aim to have as rest days (one big goal for 2014 is for Dan to be able to take Sundays off from farm work). Mondays… Continue reading Weekly Farm Life (& Orders for 2/15)

  Last weekend was the Va Biological Farming Conference. It is our favorite conference in this region, and one we look to for valuable information sharing. We got to learn from our biggest farming hero, author of The Market Gardener (Jean-Martin Fortier pictured with Dan, above), and many others. What an amazing time! This is… Continue reading Farming Heroes, Workshops, Carrots, Salad (& Orders for 2/8)

It is so strange to see things covered in white around here for so many days in one week. It’s also strange to now be living in a pink house, but that is another story.    Winter work around here continues. It feels like a lot of busy-ness while also waiting for the most important… Continue reading It’s Cold. And Snowy. (But still taking orders for 1/25)