Author: wildflowerfarm

  • Mad Honey

    Mad Honey

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    wildflowerfarm

    WARNING THIS ARTICLE MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS! READ AT YOUR OWN RISK! Last month the book club read Mad Honey by Jennifer Finney and Jodi Picoult. We actually met to discuss it somewhere else! A rare event for sure. Usually Book Club meetings take place here at Wildflower. But for a number of reasons, we decided…

  • Installment 2 of my serial.

    Installment 2 of my serial.

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    wildflowerfarm

    So here is the second installment of my serial with no name. It needs a name I just have no idea what to call it. I love to write. Not just about farming, but I am always playing with something or other usually fiction that never gets finished and just drags on. I have decided…

  • An Old Fashioned Serial

    An Old Fashioned Serial

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    wildflowerfarm

    A number of the greatest writers began as serials in publications. We all know of Sherlock Holmes, Dickens too wrote serials… I have decided I too will write one. Or rather, I will use something I have been toying with for about a decade as a serial. You see I have a horrible habit of…

  • The Language Of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

    The Language Of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

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    wildflowerfarm

    The book club met just the other day. We had a wonderful meeting. It was absolutely fabulous to see everyone. We always have a good discussion when we gather. This month was a little bit special though… Because this is the month in which Wildflower Farm began. Every year I get a cake for the…

  • Surprise!!!

    Surprise!!!

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    wildflowerfarm

    Waking up first thing in the morning is always hard. No one wants to leave the land of sleep… The land of oblivious relaxed peace where every problem we have is a million miles away. The world we create consciously comes flooding back. You realize, Plath, had a point. When you close your eyes the…

  • The Importance Of Home

    The Importance Of Home

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    wildflowerfarm

    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…

  • 6/9/2025 Barn yard Liberation Day

    6/9/2025 Barn yard Liberation Day

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    wildflowerfarm

    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…

  • The Trouble With Homestead Paradise

    The Trouble With Homestead Paradise

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    wildflowerfarm

    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…

  • Pasteurizing Goat Milk

    Pasteurizing Goat Milk

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    wildflowerfarm

    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…

  • Robin’s Nest

    Robin’s Nest

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    wildflowerfarm

    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.…