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Quarantine road runs long as does the road from the public street all the way to the old farm house. Still, we are stuck here. Prisoners of a contagion we…

Surrounded by woods, I like to go out and walk the farm road. I have built an “understanding” with the forest trees over time here. When I go out we…

The air is cool today…  The sun is bright and high in the sky. The gardens beckon…. So I am blogging from the back patio. I just hung my first…

The sun is like a big glorious yellow bird in the sky, and the blue is marked by small puffy clouds…. I can see the buds on the trees reaching…

Some pretty goes a long way when it has been too much gray and quarantine… Yesterday, I went out in the sunshine, hung out with the dog, and collected violets…

Yesterday, we had sunshine…. Yesterday the sky was blue and I watched a pair of randy robins for some time out by the edge of my woods… Today, the weather…

I feel a sense of pride. Tonight Dr. Farmer  Moomin, and I taught ourselves to can. We explored our new water canner with some bought apples. I am grateful to…

Quarantine continues here in Boston. Each day, the air gets cleaner. We have had weird weather freak snow storms…. At one point we lost power due to weather. But today,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…