Author: wildflowerfarm
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Wildflower Farm Is On Goodreads
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The nights are long and dark, sometimes the snow is deep. Often I find myself here with a quiet moment by the wood stove, that is when all the homestead work is done or I am just too tired to get up and do more and the fundamentals have been seen to. This is the…
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How Hard Is Homesteading?
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“Just roll up your sleeves, homesteading makes everything free and takes almost nothing!” That is the message you get if you read the books on homesteading. They tell you about the beautiful moments and there are some amazing highs. But they rarely get detailed about the ugly moments. Convincing people to homestead seems to be…
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The New Craft Circle
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It is probably no surprise that here at Wildflower, I am almost always making something. I could give you a long list but just assume, if I use it regularly for self care, household cleaning, at least a percentage of my own clothing, the food I eat, the soil I use for planting, etc, I…
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Sea Foam Candy and A Busy Day
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It’s another of those nights here at Wildflower, when the night is dark and deeper than winter during a February blizzard when the temperature outside in the snow is sitting comfortable at about 2 degrees. The darkness falls as rain, which all day sat above us as a threatening grey sky. Here I am in…
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Christmas Music At Wildflower
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Ambiance is maybe the thing that takes the greatest artistry around this old homestead at Christmas time. I put in a great deal of time making sure the fire is lit, that the smell in the kettle on top of Old Rusty, the wood stove smells of fir trees, sweet orange, and warm spice. Each…
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Christmas Books To Set The Christmas Mood
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Books, and literacy, have been a core theme of my life. I was eleven when I was finally able to read unassisted. I am painfully dyslexic, which is evident all over this blog, I’m sure. My grammar can be dicey as can my spelling. If you ever have trouble with my spelling sound it out…
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Wildflower Farm Spice Cookies
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Spice cookies are amazing. They are some of my all time favorite cookies to enjoy over the Christmas season. Projects, work, cooking, etc…. Homesteads, are only as good as the people they bring together. One of my favorite things about Wildflower, is how we tend to welcome just about any friends who want to visit…
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Misty Milling Morning
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When I look out today, I see a very grey sky. The mist that hangs thick whiting out the town road in the distance completely, speaks of possible and even likely torrential rains in the coming days. I don’t need a weather forecaster to tell me parts of the city of Boston and surrounding areas…
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The Sunday Breakfast Tradition
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Long before we lived here at Wildflower, my husband and I traveled the world. We lived in Canada, in Vienna, and passed through a number of other places. Most of them places I was unable to work as an American. So we lived on one income, an academic’s income from post docs. It wasn’t always…
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One Hundred Seven Years of Independence.
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I am very much an American in many respects. A bit of an odd one born in a Buddhist hippy commune and all…. But I am a Yank, none the less. When I was young I traveled a lot. I ended up married to Dr. Farmer Moomin. When I met him, Dr. Farmer Moomin, was…