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Ode to a Wood Stove

Starting a new lifestyle can be daunting any time of the year but jumping into it just as the harsh winter months approach is the kind of challenge that creates champs! We had to find ways to make life in a 400 square ft. tiny loft-style home on a secluded mountain less taxing on our […]

Our First Born

Our goats Geraldine and Josephine freshened within two days of each other. Geraldine was first; giving birth to a buckling followed by Josephine with a doeling. The baby girl arrived and left the same day – to a farm in Colorado Springs to comfort a doe who had lost her baby (altruistic from the start). […]

Bock! Bock! Who’s There?

The chicken coop is near completion and I cannot wait ’til the chickens come home to roost. Wait, I think that means, well, nevermind… Still, it’ll be nice to stop paying $6 for local farm fresh eggs, walk outside and grab a few backyard farm fresh eggs for the morning scrambler. Tony and his dad […]

Shed No More

Tony is hard at work this winter transforming our backyard into the urban version of his West Virginia farm dreams.  The central fixture of the yard used to be a beat up metal shed with no doors.  It housed some scrap wood, shovels in several stages of disrepair, and our worm compost.  It was also […]

To Market

My latest visit to Free Earth Farm was in the thick of harvest time. I’d leave the garden with a fistful of basil and a skirt heavy with heirloom tomatoes every few days. (Insalata caprese, anyone?) Not to mention the pole beans! Those suckers grow relentless. In Your Face! No large projects like the garlic […]

Garlic Breadth

Whilst visiting the farm life in West Virginia, I helped beau farmer harvest over 1000 bulbs of garlic.  The first small batch (per one seasoned garlic raiser’s recommendation) we readied by washing, cutting off the stem and root hairs, and drying on racks in the sun.  The rest we nestled in the barn, suspended by their […]