Very good friends of ours are moving away...it's a sad time when folks that we've come to know well, and enjoy their company so much...

Image Source Wishing you a Happy Thankgiving!

The more I learn about beekeeping, the more I love our chickens!  Just kidding...while I do love the girls and their farm-fresh eggs,...

Photo Credit... I obviously don't exercise enough. After stacking wood with my family this weekend... My back and shoulders ache...

A heartfelt "Thanks!" to the publishers of Capper's Farmer for including me in their first-ever Winter 2012 holiday bookazine...

Just like everything else on the farm, it's time to prepare for winter. So we're putting the garden to bed, stacking straw ...

The days are crisp now and the colors glorious. Bittersweet tangles over old wooden fences, the scent of woodsmoke is in the air each eveni...

It's a rainy day in the Midwest, and that means "check beehive" has been moved to another day's to-do list. However, th...

While the skies darkened a bit, luckily the clouds kept on rolling by...they were only teasing, and so a visit to the Country Living Fair ca...

photo source: www.todaysphoto.org Our last post for practical preparedness was on how to safely purify water in case of an emergency…...

A snoozing bee discovered in Sweet Girl's garden... sun streaming through the oak leaves... honeybees back from foragin...