Sometimes, after making hundreds of tomato sandwiches and salads, and putting up dozens of quarts of tomatoes for the winter, you come home to kitchen counters filled with this.
And this.
Over 100 pounds of tomatoes, some to be used right away (there’s Roasted Heirloom Tomato Soup at Wheatberry, folks!), the rest to be sorted into flats, ...
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She woke before dawn and rushed right to the window.  “Mama, it snowed in the night!” she insisted.  “Put on my snowsuit and let’s go see!” Snowsuit on, we examined the driveway (it was balmy, no snow in sight).  “Let’s watch the sun rising up,” she said, and so we did.  We saw the peach ...
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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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Because there’s always more to be grateful for.

This morning, we have an email in our inbox from a very experienced, long-standing New England farmer who suffered terrible crop losses this year.  So bad that he’s asking us to provide him with Early Riser corn seed for next year, which we’re going to do our best ...
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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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Or rocks, in our opinion.  Our weekend was full of
hula hooping

belly dancing and big big drums for little people

late harvests from the garden

dinner from the harvest

apple cider fresh from the press

and wool fresh off the bunny!

Hope yours was beautiful.  And despite all the amazing, luscious fiber at the festival – I only brought home two ...
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This week, I’m grateful for

our first nature table – welcome Autumn!

awesome new window crayons from Stockmar – so fun!
the gorgeous weather, the vibrant leaves, the corn harvest almost ready to come in, a dinner of delicata squash, apples, and kale . . . and on and on.
Have a lovely weekend everyone.

preparing for winter

And what could I do today, except harvest more beans at home?

Ella’s quote of the day, at the dinner table.  “What is sourdough bread?”  Well, dear, we’re so glad you asked . . .

(The fabulous bean harvest crew from Monday’s event)
(a bouquet from Sunday’s sewing bee)
Have we mentioned that we love you, our shareholders, supporters, friends, our community?
We do.
Today’s bean harvesting party started out a bit depressing.  It was discouraging that we had to have a bean harvesting party at all – the combine is broken and under ...
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