This weekend started out looking( and feeling) like this – my wheelbarrow, carefully filled with manure, abandoned mid-project, then knocked over before I could get back to finish.  Argh.

We had a visit from a dear family member this weekend, but unfortunately everything felt out of whack this week.  Ella was cranky, I was cranky, and ...
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Grateful for the chance to visit our new baby nephews last week – I think these photos say it all.

What are you grateful for today?

One of the things I’m most excited about making once we get our grain and bean share (and it’s hard to pick, believe me!) is warm breakfast cereal.  I grew up eating oatmeal, and also cheese  grits, but I recently discovered other whole grain cereals.  Man are they yummy!  Bring on the cracked grains in ...
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The idea of locally grown bread has been floating around our region for decades, but with high quality grain flooding the market the economics simply weren’t there. Two winters ago, when grain shortages began to rear their ugly head and commodity prices rocketed up, we decided the time was right and struck out to develop ...
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(Cole plowing with Ben last weekend)
Just found out about this video of Ben talking with UMass students about local grain and our project with Pioneer Valley Grain – check it out here!
And have a great weekend – we’re off to Boston to meet our sweet new baby nephews.

I want to take a moment here to thank Arnie Voehringer: Master farmer, mentor, farming partner, friend, all around cool guy, and many many things to many many people…too many to name here, but Arnie has taken me and Adam under his wing these past two years and given us so much of his time, ...
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(photo by Ben Lester)
Oh it’s good to be home.  We had a great time at Animal Powered Field Days in Tunbridge, Vermont.  We saw lots of draft horses of all kinds, oxen, mules, and even . . . draft goats!  That’s right, little draft goats in halters hitched to tiny sleds.  I’m not quite sure ...
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Congratulations to Beth & to Heather from Shivaya Naturals (handpicked by Ella)!  We’ll be in touch this week about getting your delicious local bread to you.
Their comments are below:
“Oh my goodness, this looks amazing! What a wonderful giveaway!”   Heather
“Yum! I love everything you guys bake! And local grain to boot…” Beth

We’ll be ...
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Hello friends.  Don’t forget to keep entering the Local Bread Giveaway – it’s so fun to hear from all of you!

On Sunday, we had a big tri-birthday celebration, aka a pie extravaganza.  I proposed to my dear friend Seth, and our farm apprentice Jeanine (the other two birthdays) that we try birthday pies instead of ...
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It’s giveaway time, folks!
For our first giveaway, we are offering TWO lucky folks two loaves of local bread, one whole meal, and one with sifted flour (using the amazing new mill!)  These will be sourdough loaves, made by Ben at Wheatberry with wheat grown right here in Hadley MA at Alan Zuchowski’s Lazy Acres Farm, ...
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