When we first built our place six years ago it was common to see coyotes around here. They used to love laying right behind my first chicken coop. Gradually though we took over more of our land and started cutting hay on our front pasture and turned the field west of our home into gardens. […]
And then the concrete truck arrived. It was time for the guys to get to work.
Milan is into being independent right now yet still too small to do certain things independently (like open the gate to the chicken yard). He had adapted by getting himself a bucket of sunflower seeds and feeding his chickens through the fence. Or by making the chickens reach through the fence to get the seeds […]
I should have been posting about this project for the last few weeks because now I’m so far behind on it I feel a little overwhelmed by it. On a trip to Iowa a couple of months ago we decided to prioritize the farm needs for the next few years and the two projects at […]
The holiday season has definitely taken it’s toll on my blogging and I have pictures and posts backed up from as far back as October. So tonight’s post is going to be short as I wade through photos to help me tell a few stories. I’ve been enamored with pretty eggs for a few years […]
With frost showing up a few times over the last few weeks and a freeze imminent, Milan and I spent an afternoon last week picking green cherry tomatoes. It was kind of a free for all with goats and dogs joining us to catch the last remnants of summer. While I do have a lot […]
I borrowed a bed raiser from Eddie at Kellogg Valley Farms last weekend to raise two long rows for this fall’s garlic bulbs. After raising my strawberry bed by hand (and a rake) I just had to stand and shake my head at how quickly Robert pulled up two rows for me to plant garlic cloves in. Milan […]
I watched this hawk working in our hayfield this afternoon for quite a while. These pictures aren’t great-I don’t have the right lens for this type of photography but I’m hoping my aunt will identify it for me….or Robert-Northern Harrier.
A few pictures I found on my phone of the bouquets from Saturday’s market… And a pretty visitor while I was cutting flowers Friday morning.