Author: wildflowerfarm
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Wildflower Farm Comfort Food Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Welcome to 2020 Wildflower Farm Lock Down! I wish I were kidding. But we are going to extremes right now to have little to no contact with the world. We have it to a science where we leave every second week to go grocery shopping. We have no green house as of yet, and we…
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Social Distancing Quarantine!
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Sorry no pictures for this one…. There is a lot I want to say…. But most of it I will keep to myself, because it won’t be helpful or applicable till later. For the time being I prefer to focus on where we find ourselves now.
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Cutting It Down
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It may be winter, but we have no snow. At the moment we are dealing with temperatures in the 50s. Only last week it hit 65 degrees in Antarctica. And when that ice is gone all life on earth goes with it. This is why we are here. It is why we became homesteaders. We…
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My no good very bad valentines day
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This is just not my day… It started off terrible. First at about 2 am one of the dogs crawled into bed and ultimately pushed me right out. Got back in… Went to sleep again…. Couldn’t get the dog out though so he is still there waiting to throw me out again. But, before he…
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Wildflower In The Mist
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The mist has once again come to visit, it is playing in the forest with the trees. It rolled in with the wet and cold as if it were a team of wild horses dragging the mist with them rather than a cart. The smell of cold wind and wet surround me outside. A deep…
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Update on Vanilla Extract
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The mist is thick, as we are not an intervale farm, sitting up high on ridge in the foot hills not far from Wachusett Mountain. We sit surrounded today in a thick dark sea of new England fog, rising off the icy snow that fell and iced over coating the ground, just last night. The…
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One of the most important parts of farming and homesteading is organization. This pot rack ran us $110. It’s a bit of a DIY. These three wooden bars are antique horse yolks. We hung them on the wall then just popped ’em full of hooks. Now we hang our pots there. I bought the yolks…
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A Sweater For Winter
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The hearth of the home is a special place. Especially here. The whole house revolves around the hearth. That is simply the lay out. I enjoy sitting near the fire with a nice knitting project, or on occasion working the spinning wheel even if poorly. As they say, ubung macht den meister. Work makes the…
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A Trip To Maine
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The darkness of the night rides on the back of the New England mist, as it rolls in as a thick veil of fog. I can smell the cold rain that will soon fall from the darkened sky. But I am cozy inside. New England, gets inside of you. If you live here long enough,…
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Homemade Vanilla Extract
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It is a lovely day here at Wildflower, the weather is nice not too cold, we have wispy clouds, and sunshine, and it feels like early spring. Inside, I am wasting time and doing just the usual up keep. I have a roast in the crock pot, with some olive oil and rosemary. Later, I…