Colony collapse
We had a bit of a tragedy on the farm recently. To call it a death in the family wouldn’t be so far off the mark. It certainly felt that way.…
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Tastes like happy
It wasn’t until mid-summer that I made up my mind to try raising meat chickens this year. Our good friends Jen and Ben were visiting from Montana and I was laying…
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That’s a wrap
It’s official: the growing season is over. First frost arrived 3 weeks earlier than average as temperatures dropped to 34 degrees overnight last Saturday. I spent the previous afternoon plucking…
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Planting seeds
Of all the things we grow here, I try to be mindful that our children are the most important crop. My dad (the world’s greatest) once told me that he knew…
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Preserving peppers, pt 1
Its harvest time at the Grovestead, and that means getting creative with where to put stuff. And unless you can eat 4.6 lbs of hot peppers all at once, that…
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First apple
We enjoyed our first homegrown apple from our apple orchard yesterday. The Zestar variety ripens earlier than the rest, by the end of August. It tasted similar to a Honeycrisp…
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