So I’m not a slow learner.  Really. And I guess after a year, I’ve got it figured out.  There really is no down time in farming.  I thought maybe in the middle of winter things would wind down a bit.  We’d go home early; relax; hot chocolate season and all.  Oh no, no, no.  January [...]

It’s a busy time on the farm.  Lots of prep work and planting going on.  As we expand our growing area there is always more to do than we can get done.  This week we put in new beds for asparagus.  Asparagus is a long growing crop, hopefully ten years in this one bed.  We [...]

So the Princess Farmer had a hard farming lesson yesterday. We had to put down one of our much loved hens, Ellie. Ellie was one of our original hens, and the hen modeling for our logo. It took her FOREVER to start laying, (we jokingly debated if she was worth her keep, [...]

So one of the goals, when you are building your chicken coop, is to build it to not only keep the chickens in, but more importantly, to keep the predators out.  And to that end, I think we did remarkable well.  (Well, I say “we” rather loosely.  Actually, Jose and Ramon did an outstanding job.) [...]