Category Archives: Projects

Perseverance

I’ve been thinking about this word the past month because I think this personality trait is required for any of us to be a farmer. The definition of perseverance according to Cdictionary.com, “steady persistence in a course of action, a purpose, a state, etc., especially in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement.” And the definition […]

Hooray! Our farm vacation cabin rental project inches along..

We’re moving along at a snails pace in our endeavor into the slow building movement. Last winter we harvested the trees for a pavilion and cabin, piling them in the sawmill area, and then the weeds grew up around the logs while crop farming consumed our time. For the past several months it has been […]

Finally…. we are grading the farm vacation cabin site!

We are pleased to have reached another small milestone, and that being, Alvin and Randy have begun grading the site where the Farm Vacation Cabin will be built. And the best part? They are working evenings doing this so that Carl and I can be somewhat involved. It was last year that Alvin graded the […]

Thank goodness for our dedicated CSA and tailgate market customers!

After reading an article in the Atlantic, about an excerpt from the book, “Greenhorns: 50 Dispatches from the New Farmers’ Movement”, I must say I love our CSA members and tailgate market customers. I believe that both our CSA and tailgate market customers understand the amount of work that goes into producing their food and […]

The Day I fell in love with the He-saw

This love affair of mine has been going on a couple months now, ever since early February when I was sawing black locust for heating our greenhouses, and I must say it is still going strong. For you readers to understand this love affair you must know a little about our saws and the wood […]