The vegetable fields at our CSA group's farm, Garden of Eve on Long Island in NY Our CSA ended its summer season last weekend and it made me think of how much has happened since we first started sourcing our food intentionally. Our farm dream was largely influenced by our...
Milk Flow in green + Work Flow in red = cheese for all at the end!As we get closer and closer to the next milestone of closing on our farm, we’ve been tailoring our to-do timeline (it’s a long one!) and sussing out what to focus our energy on next....
We’ve been traveling back and forth between Tennessee all year long. Why you may ask? Well, that’s where Little Seed will eventually cast it roots and we’re pretty damn excited! As I mentioned last week, we were a bit hesitant to broadcast that fact to the world because we...
It's a stark question, but before making a life-altering decision such as starting a farm it needs to be taken into account. We have never farmed, so we cannot be sure that it's really the end-all, be-all for us. We think it is. We hope it is. Our hearts believe...
One of the fun things about having a blog is checking out the "analytics". The analytics are the details behind the visitors to the site. We use a free service provided by Google called "Google Analytics". At first I was kind of obsessed with the analytics, now it's just good...
One of our readers asked if we’d considered leasing land instead of owning it. I posted some thoughts about the financial considerations last week. Here's some thoughts on the personal considerations we're taking into account.
Pastures at Vermont Shepherd in Westminster West, VT One of our readers asked if we’d considered leasing land instead of owning it. When we first started down the mental farming road a little over a year ago that was one of the first things I researched, and I can’t say...
My wedding present from Scrapple - a farm board for our future home! He worked with a great artist on Etsy to make a custom farm "skyline" cutout black board for me. For now I can dream up our future farm in chalk and someday we'll use it to leave notes...
