Since We Last Spoke . . .
I drove slowly , heart in my throat, Ella in the backseat, as Ben and Cole made their way through the center of our town to our bean field on the riding cultivator for the first time.
And then they, with our amazing friend and farming partner Seth, proceeded to rock the field, weeding and hilling ...
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Time for a Break
Love her summer cooking outfit – panties with an apron.
With a broken camera (oh that fateful final “click!”), family visiting, and no internet at home, the time is ripe for a blog summer break! Only for a week or so, and then we’ll be back. In the meantime, pop over to www.localgrain.org to see a ...
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Local Grain Video
(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.
oh my the pies
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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What’s for dinner
Dinner time on the farm . . .
(photo by Jeanine Dargis)
finds Cole eating hay off of Molly’s back. Molly has turned out to be an amazingly sweet, chill ewe. Ben has been hard at work building us a new barn door, and while he was using a Sawz-all to cut out some of the wall, ...
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bonjour says Cole . . .
standing in our living room. Apparently, if we don’t make sure our back door is firmly latched, he can walk in. Whoops! I guess it was Murphy’s Law that Sheep in a Subaru would have to be followed by a Horse in the House, eh?
Hope to see all of you Saturday at the Field Day!! ...
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the biggest dog of all
I made Calabacitas for dinner the other night, and was stunned that I had never made it before. It is super easy, super delicious, and perfect for this time of year. I did a simplified version of a recipe from Jessica Prentice’s book Full Moon Feast (available soon at Wheatberry).
2 Tbsp olive oil or butter
2 ...
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the weekend brings
light at the lake
someone’s handmade flowers
giggling cousins
an apron for Genevieve
a long overdue pedicure for Cole
. . . and a broken refrigerator and broken toes. But we don’t need photos of those, now do we?
this world of good work
It occurred to me that many of you may be wondering – Why get a horse? Or even, as one customer put it, “What on earth are you going to do with a 1600 pound horse?”
The answer to the second question is both simple and broad. We’re going to farm with our horse, including plowing, ...
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The Team
The scene:
Sunday afternoon (our second day with Cole),walking down the street with Ben, Ella on my back and oats in my hand, looking for Cole. 8 ft cedar posts and 4ft hog wire fencing(our dog fence)is simply no match for a 1600lb curious horse named Cole. The crunch of fence under Cole’s hoof(yes he crushed ...
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