Life in the Garden

“When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade”  One of my favorite quotes of all time from Dale Carnegie. Well, the weather has pretty much been a bushel of lemons …

As the farm and our website have grown over the course of the last few years – we have had more and more requests from our readers and followers asking …

Anyone who reads our blog with regularity quickly realizes how vital of a role honey plays in our life at the farm.  Honey is a main ingredient in our strawberry …

To put it simply – soil is to vegetable plants what food is to humans. With little or no food – human become sick and would eventually perish. The same …

Maybe we have been spoiled. For the last few years, we have been able to work through the majority of winter on many of our outdoor projects. During the winter …

As much as we love the holiday season – at the stroke of midnight on December 31st we happily turn our thoughts to the coming growing season at the farm! …

Our honeybees and hive had a good first year at the farm – and now that the cold of winter has arrived – they have begun their own version of …

Hands down – Thanksgiving will always be one of our favorite holidays of the year.  Mary put it best when she described it a few weeks back in one of …

A few weeks back, after writing an article about canning and growing our own food at the farm (How The Garden Feeds Us) – Mary and I were amazed at the …

After a few weeks of nightly brainstorming sessions where we could fit them in – we have finished up the main layout and design of the cabin project (click on …