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A great day with fathers and sons. We shot arrows, threw knives and talked about leading our families and raising godly sons. We ended the day with each family making their own crest where every shape, color and symbol meant something unique to their family.. Just as every vision God gives to families is unique and significant. Thanks to Jared Dodd for making the trek up from TX to speak into these dads and sons!
A manure spreader is a real good time. Like confetti shooting from a parade float. 🎉 Plus, it’s an entire winter’s worth of barn poo put to good use to fertilize the field. Think of what a fantastic system that is that God put in place for us. (Also, there is a certain time of night that the sun turns our barn into a candy cane...)
We are 33 weeks pregnant this week and feeling very excited to have a baby in the house again. 🥰
Rory has a nickname for each kid. Hattie is Sugar Plum, and for weeks she has been telling me that she wanted to ‘give Dad a plum filled with sugar!’ for Father’s day. Her idea caught on and each kid gave a treat that matches their nickname. Rory’s favorite calling is to be a dad. (If you know him, you know this to be true.) Which makes him very easy to celebrate. I’m so glad to be teamed up with him.
Backyard camping for Father’s Day! A really good time (and 100% my idea...) but I slept on the crib mattress and am feeling totally fine about sleeping in my bed tonight...
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First tulip peeking through
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Tulip Sighting

  • April 13, 2014
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  • Rory
Pulled the straw cover off our raised beds this week. It was exciting to see the first tulip stems peeking through. Last fall we packed all four raised beds full…
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Boiling maple sap over home-built evaporator
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How to Build an Evaporator (from stuff laying around)

  • April 12, 2014
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Through a good amount of trial and error last year I figured out how to construct an evaporator to boil down our maple sap on the cheap. Then I forgot…
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Under the grow lights

  • April 3, 2014
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  • Rory
Our tomato seedlings are close to graduation into tomato starts. They’ve done well as our first experiment under the grow lights. Almost full germination and despite some missed waterings, they…
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Orchard Planning

  • April 2, 2014
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  • Rory
One of our top priorities since moving here was getting an apple orchard planted. With orchards, it can take several years before we see the fruit of our labor so we…
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How to lose money farming

  • April 1, 2014
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  • Rory
When we moved to The Grovestead, half the property was being rented to a neighboring farm. I usually don’t turn down free money. But in this case, 8-foot tall cornstalks made…
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Tractor Hunt

  • March 30, 2014
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My friend Ben manages a landscaping business and let me borrow his Kubota sub-compact tractor. I fell in love. What used to take me 4 hours of back-breaking manual labor…
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