A 150-year-old find in the dirt
A couple of months ago, while moving hot wire for the cattle, I hit something hard driving a post into the ground. I dug it out and found this:
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The question I ask myself every day
There are days on the farm when I look around and just think, “How on earth did I end up here?” I was raised in the suburbs, so I didn’t grow up knowing how to manage livestock, inspect hives, or build soil. Pretty much everything I do out here on Nonsense Farm is the product…
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The Momentous and the Mundane
There is a quiet, jarring moment that happens when the monumental collides with the mundane. It happened recently when someone dear to me sent a screenshot. Her little girl was born with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, which is just a complex way of saying the left side of her heart didn’t develop before she was…
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Stuck in Neutral
A near-record dry spell has put the farm on pause, from buried water lines to fall hive inspections, and sitting still isn’t my strong suit.
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Why Fall Gardening is the Best
If you’re not planning to have a Fall garden, you are snoozing on the best gardening of the year. You can grow things in the Fall that don’t do well in the Summer AND you can be a lot more comfortable doing it. Cooler temperatures. It’s such a relief when the temperatures no longer eclipse…
