Author: wildflowerfarm
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The Importance Of Home
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The sky was bright and the trees smelled beautiful as the fragrance of the woods mingled with the fragrance of the spring earth…. That smell that makes me giddy with a sense of joy that I only experience when I can smell the spring earth, ripe for planting. It’s the fragrance of what all of…
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6/9/2025 Barn yard Liberation Day
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It has been a very odd day here on the homestead today…. So first some updates on the trip to Maine, I was so sure I would have to send Dr. Farmer Moomin, alone to represent us both. The trip has been saved! At the last moment we found a farm sitter. I hope to…
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The Trouble With Homestead Paradise
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Today, the sound of thunder rumbled around us but no rain fell. The sky is dark and foreboding, as if it is gathering the steam necessary to find an outdoor birthday party with a beautiful cake, and then poop all over it with a sudden torrential down pour. Just for the joy of being the…
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Pasteurizing Goat Milk
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It has been a wreckage of a day. I mainly stayed in baking muffins that included goat milk, for Dr. Farmer Moomin to take to work with him tomorrow. He likes to share the goodies I bake for him with his work buddies. Some of whom are also members of his hockey team. Hilariously, they…
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Robin’s Nest
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Today, the weather was garbage. The sky was dark grey and we are expecting a major storm. You can feel it’s heaviness all around you in New England, when a storm is hanging right over your head. It is almost as if the grey is collapsing downward on top of you. The humidity is high.…
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The Clothes Drier Commits Seppuku
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It has been a mean week and a week of firsts here at Wildflower. It began, with the purchase of some new goats who are presently in milk. Then the clothes drier committed ritual suicide just when I needed it most. I was teaching myself how to milk our new prized goats. My aim still…
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The Life List
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The Life List, was this month’s book club discussion book. We gathered, as we do every month here at Wildflower. There were snacks and lively discussion and debate. Some agreement, some disagreement. But in the end, there were a group of women devoted to each other and to the act that brings us together, reading.
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Single Quart Goat’s Milk Mozzarella Cheese
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It is a grey, dark day. The air is heavy and still, thick and soupy, suffocating… It feels like a thunderstorm is building… It is not particularly warm today, unlike yesterday. When the sky was a beautiful shade of blue, dotted with puffy clouds and the birds were singing. We have a cardinal that likes…
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New Friends On The Farm
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The sun has been shouting it’s glory around here again, finally. The pale blue of the sky has been so amazing to look at. The rain and dreariness seems to have wandered away and fallen to their death off some cliff somewhere. The result is beautiful days. The trees are in leaf and the birds…
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Farm Forage Salad
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Today the sky was a mix of small puffy clouds and sunshiny and thick heavy grey skies. At times I worried, the sky might open and I might get drenched. In the end I did in fact get drenched but not by the sky caving in from the thick clouds up above me. Instead I…