Beauty Interrupted

Animals, Musings, Sheep

Beauty, in all its manifestations,  has always been important to me but the older I get the more it has become a faith, a yearning, and a guiding principle for my life. My great fortune is that the farm puts all this in crystal clear perspective, day after day. This...

Wisdom From Wendell Berry

Musings

Our Work Starts with You. With the gentle caressing of another rainfall, chores done, cows milked, bread rising and most of the gardening put on hold, I’ve filled the French press with coffee and grabbed my morning reading for some further edification from Wendell...

What a Difference a Year Makes

Farming, Homesteading, Musings

I’ve just come in from my pasture inspection and I just couldn’t help but remember what things were like on the farm one year ago.  Baby Indi was just born (yesterday was his birthday) and Baby Michi was born in several inches of snow (today he is one year...

A Fleeting Glimpse of Beauty

Farm News, Musings, Thoughts and Reflections

A fleeting glimpse of Beauty The other day while I was alone on the farm I found a little surprise up on the hill by Narnia; a sprite little bull calf from Sweetie Pie our Ayrshire cow. He is SO cute and has such a funny personality, even then at the ripe old age of 2...

3 days without my Farming Partners

Farm News, Homesteading, Musings, Sustainable Farming

I am so thankful that my children choose to spend their vacations (and their money) moving a family from under piles of cardboard (or if they’re lucky, a couple of ping pong tables) and into a new 12×20 home they build together over a week.  I know that...

Narnia, here at River Cottage Farm

Musings

It takes more than four straight days of rain to keep me from my pasture walks in the mornings.  I pull on my Wellies, step out onto the patio and with the deepest breath I can muster I bask in the beauty of our farm. Balancing my piping hot cup of tea as I unhook...