Author: wildflowerfarm
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New Life, The Wheel Turns
The jonquils dance today in the cold early spring breeze. It’s so nice to see them. We have been here so long now, I greet them in the spring as old friends returning from a great journey to the beyond they go to every winter.
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Wildflower Farm Quarantine Comfort Muffins
Trapped like the rest of you due to the situation with the Corona Virus, I have become trail cook so to speak. We homestead folk, like the rest of you are trying as hard as we can not to leave Wildflower, for the moment. I send out my husband type 0 blood, falls in all…
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Wildflower Farm Comfort Food Chocolate Chip Cookies
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!
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
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
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
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
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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A Sweater For Winter
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…