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You are invited to our farm for our third annual H You are invited to our farm for our third annual Homesteading Summit! This is open to anyone who feels a stirring to learn the things your great grandparents knew. The truth of homesteading is that you don’t need land to do a lot of these things and there is always something new to learn. It is two full days on our farm: Friday and Saturday July 4&5. Cost is $125 and includes a dinner on Friday night. Here is what we will cover: Rory will lead us with a conversation on food, fiber and shelter. Our realtor friend Kevin will share what to consider in a country homestead. I will show how I make goat milk soap. Then we will butcher chickens together (don’t knock it until you try it!). @brees.farm.gardens will teach on homegrown healthcare: medicinal herbs and tinctures. Rory and Ivar will show our deep mulch garden and share how we try to grow most of our food. And that’s just the first day! Day two has fiber arts with Elsie- weaving and spinning, @lockremhomestead will demonstrate how she makes sourdough and teach on canning and preserving the harvest. Peter Burkle will teach on family-scale livestock, choosing the right breeds and rotational grazing. And Rory and I will close with a conversation on why we farm. This is basically a summer camp for adults- it always has that feel. And we keep it small so there is more space for conversation and questions. Registration and all sorts of faq’s can be found at gatherandgrow.us And register soon if you’re interested as this event always fills up. We hope you can come!
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We would love to have you join us for our Farm and We would love to have you join us for our Farm and Family Fair, here on our farm this Friday and Saturday (May 23&24). The big white tent is up! We have 20 families coming to share their family economies. I am coming with my Christmas gift list, ready to shop handmade and local, supporting families and not amazon. :) We would love to have you come- food trucks, a pie contest and pie social, children's music, blacksmithing, saw milling, goldendoodle puppies, rope making, fiber crafts, woodworking and lots of baby animals. I mean, there has to be something in that list to pique your interest! Register at www.gatherandgrow.us The event is free, but donation are very much appreciated at the check in. See you soon!
I told Rory that the overwhelming part of spring, I told Rory that the overwhelming part of spring, with all the projects looking you in the face, can be so intense that God decided to sprinkle in new life to lighten it all up. New life never gets old!
I do not know a joy more thrilling than the first I do not know a joy more thrilling than the first snow of the year! What fun, what fun.
This is the first cut bouquet I made all season. I This is the first cut bouquet I made all season. It took the threat of frost to get me out there! Elsie is good about cutting flowers to bring inside, but I think I had this in the category of ‘not-totally-necessary’…you know, with lots going on with kids and a farm. But that was the wrong category! I enjoyed cutting the flowers and arranging them so, so much (which shouldn’t be a huge surprise since I’m my mom’s daughter…) Anyway, we were suddenly motivated to keep these beauties alive a little longer so we covered the tall celosia late last night and woke to a site very much like ghosts in the garden. But it was just flowers tucked in for the frost.
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Snow is so fun.

  • March 8, 2025
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l really have nothing more to say than just that. Snow, we have missed you. You make winter so much fun. I told Rory I felt like I had to…
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Sixty-five Years on a Farm

  • March 7, 2025
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My Aunt Annie and Uncle Ed are celebrating sixty-five years of marriage this year. Sixty-five years! And just as notable, they have lived in their farmhouse the whole sixty-five years.…
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Snow Day!

  • March 6, 2025
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Well, we had a great one day of winter. Since we’re going on our second not-actually-all-that-wintery-winter, this forecast for lots of snow and very high winds had us thrilled. I…
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March On The Farm

  • March 5, 2025
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I woke up this morning to 8 inches of snow that fell last night. We ate breakfast, and then I went out to the barn to do chores and see…
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Learning from a Master: My Apprenticeship in Texas

  • March 3, 2025
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Since I was young, I have always wanted to pursue Woodworking as a future career. The problem, however, is that there is no one in our area that has the…
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Raising Hardy Sheep

  • February 20, 2025
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When my dad bought the first sheep for our farm several years ago, we had no idea what we were doing. You can’t, after all, coming from a city background…
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