First, I hope everyone had a wonderful, peaceful Mother’s Day.  I enjoyed a freshly scrubbed kitchen (thank you Ben!) and spent most of the day listening to Ella giggle hysterically while we played with our new kitten and some ribbon (sorry, no photos yet!).
Emmalina asked for advice about finding a draft horse, and as usual, ...
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I have been feeling, these days, incredibly be blessed to be here, in our beloved Valley, enjoying the tender new spring.  This time of year, driving past other greening farms, I wonder how anyone could choose to live anywhere else, or live any other kind of life.
In June, sometimes, in the crazy scramble to get ...
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So grateful to all of you who came out to our Open Farm Day last Sunday – we had an amazing time hosting more than 50 people!!  Kids got to thresh beans with our awesome farm partner Seth, we disced the field with Cole our draft horse, showed our grain trials, and shared lots of ...
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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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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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(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.

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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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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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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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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