Time to Order Your bees

Homesteading, Simple Living, Sustainable Farming

  This year we are so lucky to have David and Carolyn Craig working with us to set up our bee hives. The Craigs have immersed themselves in all things bees and are leading the charge to get our pollinators moved in. I have had bees on my farms for the past 7...

Winter Comes to the Farm – Finally!

Animals, Seasonal Living

  This winter has been extremely strange. Snow one day and 62 degrees a few days later. Here are a few pictures of the farm with a dusting of snow on the ground. Our best guess on the wonderful coloring is that the ridge behind our farm allowed the sun to shine...

Greek Style Yogurt

Cultured Foods, dairy recipes, Homesteading, Raw Milk, Recipes

Thick, creamy yogurt is all the rage and with good cause. Ever since my travels to Germany where I found myself, trudging zombie-like over hills, through hamlets, over church yards with 125 steps (each way) for my daily dose of quark I have been addicted to the stuff....

Fall comes to River Cottage Farm

Farm News, Simple Living, Sustainable Farming

There is no doubt about it… the air is crisper, the nights cooler, and the colors are about to change the the face of the ridge behind our farm. Every year autumn seems to come from nowhere and I never feel I am quite ready for it and the letting go of summer,...

Family Meal Time

Simple Living, Slow Food

My foray into farm life was certainly idyllic if nothing else.  I set my feet in the tall grass of our new pastures with many, many nostalgic dreams in my heart.  Looking back now, some 18 years later, I can see with a bit of clarity the ones that were to be and the...

Morning on the Farm

Homesteading

Mornings are the time of the day when I walk the farm.  I usually do this with shears in hand, looking for thistles about to bloom or to check on the elderberries hoping that this will be the year for me to beat the birds and get some jam and wine made.  I look over...