I have had family and friends experience loss this month. It is hard.
I felt the weight of it while washing dishes last night—thoughts and memories flooding in. How can I still be here, doing
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The Pigs Are Getting a Garden This Year
I woke up to the cattle loudly complaining — moos carrying across the barnyard in the -18° windchill. The water had
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The Robins Are Back.
I hardly know how to contain myself this week. The geese are streaming overhead in great, honking lines, the clover is
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She Said Yes (In Our Barn)
Something wonderful happened in our barn last week.
My little sister got engaged!
A few days before, her now
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Thank You Doesn’t Feel Big Enough
Because of this community, our beef shares are now spoken for this season — wow.
I am overwhelmed by the love shown
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Beef Vegetable Au Jus
A Winter Saturday Stew (Two Ways)
We love recipes that adapt to life rather than demanding you drop everything to
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Winter Camping in -36 degree weather?
How are you weathering this cold snap?
My husband, Benjamin, spent his weekend camping — of all things — up in the
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Some Things Are Just Work (And That’s Good)
Staying warm out there right now, takes intention.
I think sometimes we all assume everyone else has found an easier
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Where our attention rests.
Last night, somewhere between chores and dinner, my husband Benj said something that made us both laugh—and then
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All The Time It Takes
I have to share something that made me so happy I literally could not sleep the night it happened.
A while back, I
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